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Updated: May 11, 2025
The old man, setting meat before them, said: 'Eat! who is a manito? there is no manito but me; there is none whom I fear; and the earth trembled as the monster advanced. The old man opened the door and saw him coming.
"I suspect," said Dick, looking about him with great satisfaction, "that this was a favorite picnic place for Gitche Manito and Hiawatha, in the morning of days." "That shows how nature can forget," Madeline retorted. "Surely you know the real story, Dick." "I don't," said Ellery. "Tell it to me." She snuggled comfortably down into her rugs.
They presently entered the strait by which Lake Huron joins Lake Erie; and, landing near where Detroit now stands, found a large stone, somewhat suggestive of the human figure, which the Indians had bedaubed with paint, and which they worshipped as a manito. In view of their late misfortune, this device of the arch-enemy excited their utmost resentment.
It was noticed, however, that Monedowa himself ate but little, and that of a peculiar kind of meat, flavored with berries, which, with other circumstances, convinced them that he was not as the Indian people around him. In a few days his mother-in-law told him that the manito would come to pay them a visit, to see how the young man, her son, prospered.
And seizing the wicked manito, he dashed him against the pillar of stone. His kindred, who were looking on in horror, raised a cry of fear and fled away in a body to some distant land, whence they have never returned.
On the other hand, most of the Amerindian tribes believed in one great God of the Sky Manito, as He was called by the peoples of Algonkin stock, Nainubushan by the Siou and their kindred. But sometimes the Great Manito was capricious, or apparently made many mistakes which he had afterwards to rectify.
They made war upon us, and drove us from our cornfields; they killed our old men, and sent away our young men and maidens into slavery. O, Manito, thus hath the accursed pale faces requited our kindness. "Wast thou displeased with the red men O, Manito? Had the children of the Forest offended thee, that thou didst deliver them into the hand of their enemies?
The Manito advised Owasso to spear a large sturgeon which came alongside, and with its great glassy eye turned up, seemed to recognize the magician. Owasso rose in the boat to dart his spear, and by speaking that moment to his canoe, Mishosha shot forward and hurled his son-in-law headlong into the water; where, leaving him to struggle for himself, he was soon out of sight.
"The boy let his last arrow fly toward the heart of the chief of the manitoes. But the evil spirit saw it coming and changed himself into a rock. "'How dare you try to kill me! cried the angry manito. 'Now you shall suffer. You shall evermore be like the trail of your arrow. "And he changed the boy into the lone lightning which you so often see, my children, in the northern sky."
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.
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