--- title: IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · full text with trees description: IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: (Ojibway) --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/34/) [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/) / IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Wa… # IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole text, 26 sentences and 341 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. (Ojibway)[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") Weenk is the sandman of the Ojibway or Chippewa children.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") He comes every night and brings so many tiny warriors with him that each eyelid is conquered and closed till morning.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") The Ojibway mother puts her papoose to sleep in a tiny hammock made of bark, fastened with sinew thongs and lined with soft, dry moss.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") She sings strange slumber songs to the wee one, and the older children stand by her in the summer evenings and whisper little stories of Weenk and his warriors.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") “Weenk is a bee as big as a buffalo,” they say.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") “He has bees’ wings instead of hair.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") The wings sing and sing.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") They buzz and buzz.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") He is always sleepy.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") He brings sleep to children.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") The little one must go to sleep; Weenk has come.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") “Weenk is a good man.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") He brings many little manitous to help him, and they go everywhere.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") There is one on the papoose’s eyelid now.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") They are dancing in the little one’s hair.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") Buzz, buzz, buzz.”[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") “Here is a war club one of the little manitous has lost,” a sister will say as she picks up a tiny hair.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") “Here is a feather from a scalp lock,” says another, as she holds up a fiber from some feather.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") So the fun goes on until finally the little papoose is asleep.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") “We will fight Weenk,” say the children, and then there is a battling of empty hands in the air, while they sing “Buzz, buzz, buzz.”[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") “Wewahsta has lighted her lamp,” says the squaw mother as she sees the evening star.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the children know it is time for them to lie down to sleep, and soon the wigwam is still.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") The story of buzzing Weenk and his band is fresh every evening, for they always tell new stories of what the little warriors can do.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") Sometimes they come on the fireflies, and sometimes the mosquitoes and busy gnats bring them.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") Indian children are much like their white brothers and sisters and find sport in many things.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [VIII. Giants and Fairies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/33/) - next →: [X. the Little People of the Senecas](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/35/) - ↑ back to [Wigwam stories told by North American Indians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/)