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Updated: May 9, 2025
Under the ruins lay crushed the mortal bodies of Pauppukkeewis and the manito. It was only then that Pauppukkeewis found that he was really dead. He had been killed before in the shapes of different animals, but now his body, in human shape, was crushed. Manabozho came and took his jee-bi, or spirit. "You," said he to Pauppukkeewis, "shall not be again permitted to live on the earth.
They skinned him, and as his flesh got cold his jee-bi took its flight, and once more he found himself in human shape. His passion for adventure was not yet cooled. On coming to a large lake, the shore of which was sandy, he saw a large flock of brant, and, speaking to them, he asked them to turn him into a brant. "Very well," said they. "But I want to be very large," said he.
My ghost or shadow will not die after they get me to their lodges." When the party arrived home, they sent out invitations to a grand feast. The women took Pauppukkeewis and laid him in the snow to skin him, but as soon as his flesh got cold, his jee-bi, or spirit, fled. Pauppukkeewis found himself standing on a prairie, having assumed his mortal shape.
He lost his senses, and when he recovered them he found himself jammed in a cleft in a hollow tree. To get backward or forward was impossible, and there he remained until his brant life was ended by starvation. Then his jee-bi again left the carcass, and once more he found himself in human shape.
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