--- title: Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6 — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · full text with trees description: Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. 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The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/16/page/2/) Then he beheld his wife coming across the surface of this upper world toward him.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") Said she, “You should not have come here, because, after all your trouble, you will die anyway.”[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") She took hold of him and made shift to raise him.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") Then she pulled him out after teasing him a little while.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") “Now,” she said to him, “we always play ball up here.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") There are men here whom you will meet.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") They are your brothers-in-law.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") They will want you to play ball.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") If they beat you in the game, they will kill you; but if you beat them, you will survive.”[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") Then she led him away to a village, where they saw a lot of great White Bears.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") This was the great White Bear’s home and his family.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") Now the old Bear arranged a contest for the stranger.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") Said he, “You take this ball and go around the edge of this world, running.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") One of these Bears will race with you, to see who gets back here first.”[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") So they started.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") The Bear took the ball in his mouth and, as soon as he started running, the man jumped upon his back and shook his ears, which made the Bear drop the ball.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he threw the ball ahead.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") In this way, repeating the trick, they went around the world, and the man succeeded in getting back first.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") When he reached the starting point, the Bears said, “You seem to be a pretty good man; but there are still more tricks for you to perform.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") If you win, you can stay.”[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") And they all went out together and came to a big rock.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") One of the White Bears tried to move this rock, and with a great effort he succeeded in moving it a little.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") “Now, you try,” said they, “and if you can’t move it, you are a dead man.”[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the man took his bow and arrow and shot it at the rock.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") The rock immediately broke into fragments.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") “Indeed, you are a great man, our brother-in-law, and can stay here and hunt and live with us,” said the old White Bear.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the old Bear told him, after a while, that he had better go and hunt, or he would grow lonesome in his new life.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") By this time they had grown to like him very much.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") One afternoon, late, he started off to hunt.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") Everything that he met seemed strange to him in this new world.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") Soon he came to a lake with a little ice on it, and when he walked out he beheld tracks of some animal.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") Soon he came to a place where a big wooden mallet lay on the ice.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") He thought to himself that somebody had lost this mallet.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he took it by the handle and hammered on the ice.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") Immediately the hammer fell through.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") Up from the hole in the ice a red otter emerged.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") He killed the red otter.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he went on with the hammer to another place.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") There he tried again, and this time got a blue otter.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") He tried again at another place and got a black otter, which was like the otters of this world.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") So, taking his load of otters, he went home to display what he thought was a pretty good hunt.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") He carried his game in a bag of leather.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") When he got to his wigwam, he shoved his bag in the entrance ahead of him, so that his wife could open it and see what he had brought.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") \[39\] Thought she to herself, when she saw the game-bag, “I wonder if he will show himself to be a good hunter.”[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") She saw some blood on the bag.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") Opening it, she beheld the otters, Now the man had made a mistake, for these were tame otters and belonged to the Bears.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") She went out crying to her people, “This man has killed our otters!”[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") When the old White Bear heard about the news, he said to his family, “We should have told this man about our otters, because he didn’t know.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") On this account it is all right.”[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") He said no more, because he was afraid of the magic possessed by his new son-in-law.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") (10) Ayas·e and the Origin of Bats.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") The Ayas·e family was a large family.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") They lived in a camp.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") Very often they used to go picking berries, for their country was a rocky country where berries abounded.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") Very often some of the berry-pickers would get lost and never be found again.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") It was thought that some creature made a prey of them and ate them.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") One time one of the Ayas·e men was travelling.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") On his way he came across a kind of cabin of rock, from the top of which smoke was rising and in front of which a number of human skulls hung in the opening.[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") Now this Ayas·e managed to enter.[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") By being very careful and not touching the skulls, he gained the inside of the rock house without making any noise.[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") These skulls were put there to rattle when anybody tried to pass.[61](61/ "tree and pragmatics") When Ayas·e got inside, he beheld two old blind women.[62](62/ "tree and pragmatics") As soon as they became aware of his presence, one of them said, “We had better begin to cook something and we will find out if Ayas·e is passing here.”[63](63/ "tree and pragmatics") Now these old women had some grease in a bark dish and one of them put some of the grease in a cooking pail.[64](64/ "tree and pragmatics") When she did this, Ayas·e pulled it out with his hand and ate it.[65](65/ "tree and pragmatics") Then she took the spoon to taste her grease, but found it gone.[66](66/ "tree and pragmatics") So she put another lump in the dish.[67](67/ "tree and pragmatics") Ayas·e took this, and when she started to dip it up, it, too, was gone.[68](68/ "tree and pragmatics") This happened three or four times.[69](69/ "tree and pragmatics") At last the old woman said, “Ayas·e must have passed; somebody told us that Ayas·e was going to pass.[70](70/ "tree and pragmatics") He must have passed now.”[71](71/ "tree and pragmatics") Then she took a stick which she used to poke the fire with and began feeling all around, poking in the corners of the wigwam to find if Ayas·e were there.[72](72/ "tree and pragmatics") Every time she came near poking him, he moved to another part of the wigwam, so she could not reach him.[73](73/ "tree and pragmatics") Pretty soon she touched him with the poker and then he took off his coat of fisher-skin which he was wearing and threw in into the door-way.[74](74/ "tree and pragmatics") The old women jumped up and when they felt the fur coat they thought it was Ayas·e trying to escape through the door.[75](75/ "tree and pragmatics") Now these old women had a sharp pointed bone at each elbow.[76](76/ "tree and pragmatics") With this pointed bone they began stabbing the fur coat in their haste to kill Ayas·e, and pretty soon in their blind fury they fell to stabbing each other, each one thinking she was stabbing Ayas·e. They killed each other.[77](77/ "tree and pragmatics") One of the old women said before she died, “I believe you hit me by mistake.”[78](78/ "tree and pragmatics") It was too late; they both died.[79](79/ "tree and pragmatics") Now Ayas·e in the wigwam sat down and looked at them a long time.[80](80/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he dragged them outside and looked at them a long time.[81](81/ "tree and pragmatics") All around the wigwam he saw the men’s and women’s bones, the bones of the victims of these two old blind women.[82](82/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he knew that all of his lost people had been killed by the old women and eaten.[83](83/ "tree and pragmatics") They were cannibals in the shape of monster bats, large enough to kill and eat people.[84](84/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Ayas·e took their bodies and cut them up into small pieces.[85](85/ "tree and pragmatics") These he threw into the air and they sailed off, transformed into small bats as we see them to-day.[86](86/ "tree and pragmatics") I did not see any more.[87](87/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/16/page/2/) - ← previous: [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/15/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/16/page/2/) - ↑ back to [Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/)