--- title: VIII. Giants and Fairies — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · full text with trees description: VIII. Giants and Fairies, «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The Indians in the forest have many stories of giants. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/33/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Wigwam stories told by North American…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/) / VIII. Giants and Fairies # VIII. Giants and Fairies VIII. Giants and Fairies of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole text, 21 sentences and 296 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. The Indians in the forest have many stories of giants.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") The red men are very proud of their own people, who can lift the greatest weight, run the fastest races, or suffer the most pain without making a sound.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") You see the Indian is not so very different in some ways from the white man.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") Kwasind, among the Chippewas, was a strong weedigo, or giant.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") He it was that threw the rock into the Sault Ste.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") Marie.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") He could not be hurt except in one place; that was in the back of his head.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") Kwasind was foolish enough to tell this to one of the little water people.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") He told a little nibanabas that if the little people of the forest, the pukwudjinnies, could hit him with cones from the pine trees, he would die.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") But he knew he was very tall, and the pukwudjinnies were no larger than a little papoose.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") The little people of the forest soon heard the secret.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") They left the shores of the swift river and went to look for pine cones.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") They found them and brought many back.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") They hid by the river until Kwasind came in his great canoe asleep; the nibanabas had sung him to sleep.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") The little people threw their cones into the canoe and hit Kwasind on the back of his head.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") The wicked giant never hurt any one again.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") There was another giant who lived near Narragansett Bay.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") His wife grew angry with him and went across the bay to live alone.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") If a fisherman drifted near her wigwam by the shore, she always turned him into a great rock.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") A terrible storm came from the sea and washed away these rocks and her wigwam; after that the fishermen were not afraid.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") Adapted from Schoolcraft.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [VII. Story of the First Man and Woman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/32/) - next →: [IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/34/) - ↑ back to [Wigwam stories told by North American Indians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/)