--- title: XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · full text with trees description: XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: (Chippewa) --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/67/) [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/) / XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon # XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole text, 55 sentences and 968 words. 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(Chippewa)[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") One of the warriors in an Ojibway band had a boy who refused to fast as all other boys and men had done.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") “I like to eat; it is hard to be faint and hungry,” said the boy when his father took him to the little wigwam in the forest.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") “You shall eat after the manitou has talked to you,” said the father.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") “I will not fast; let me have my bow and arrows and I will hunt for you,” said the boy.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") “If you will not go into the little wigwam, you shall not come back to my fire.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") You may sleep where you can find a place, but never come back to me until you have talked to a manitou,” said the warrior.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") The boy ran into the forest and hid himself.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") He picked berries all day and made a bed on the moss at night.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") The moon shone very bright, and he thought there was a face in it, so he asked the moon to take care of him while he slept.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") The boy awoke, but it was not day.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") A girl stood by him dressed in shining clothes, and her face was like the one he had seen in the moon.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") “I shall have to go back to my sky teepee, but you must go with me.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") Stand up quickly and take hold of my hand.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") Come, Cloud Catcher, come, for the stars are going to hide,” and the boy felt himself rising and moving through the air like a bird.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") Cloud Catcher went through the clouds into the beautiful country behind the sky, and soon they stopped in front of a great teepee which belonged to a great chief with hair like fire.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") The chief was the moon maiden’s brother.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") “You are not wise,” said the great chief to the girl.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") “I am alone; let me have him and I shall be happy,” said the moon maiden.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") The chief gave the boy a pipe and a bow and some arrows.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") “You may stay,” said the sun chief.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") Cloud Catcher and the girl played in the fields all day while the sun was off on his journeys.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") He shot at the stars, and sometimes hit one so hard that it let go and fell down through the sky.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") The moon maiden had a great bow that she hung in the sky at night and played with in the daytime.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") She could shoot farther than Cloud Catcher, but she never hurt anything with her arrows.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") One day the boy went to the great sun chief and said: “I used to eat much when in my father’s wigwam.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") I am hungry for meat; will you give me some?”[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") “You children of the ground are very strange in your ways,” said the sun chief.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") “You have all the sky to make you happy, but now you are crying for meat.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") It is not wise, but you shall have it, for you are one of us, and whatever you ask must be given.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") Come with me.”[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") The sun chief took Cloud Catcher the next day, and they walked to a place where the sky was open.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") They looked down on the ground, and the chief shot one of his arrows.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") It struck a little child, who fell down and was carried into her father’s wigwam.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") “Send meat and the child shall be well,” said the sun chief.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") Meat was put on the fire and burned, and as it burned it came up to Cloud Catcher’s feet, and he ate it like a hungry man.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") The child walked out of the wigwam, for it was now well, and Cloud Catcher had his meat.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") After that feast he wanted to walk many times with the sun to the place where the sky was broken, and every time he asked for meat.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") One day he said: “I will go back to my own country; there my arrows will bring my meat to me, and no one will need to be sick.”[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") The moon maiden said: “You are going back to sickness, to cold, and to war, but you belong to me and must never take a wife from your people.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") Come,” and again they moved through the air like birds.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") She took him back to his bed of moss, and when he awoke this time he found his father standing by him.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") “I have seen a manitou; I am to be called Cloud Catcher,” said the boy, as his father took his hand and led him into their wigwam.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") His mother was glad to see him and very proud of his name.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") “You are tall; you are strong and brave.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") There is no one in the tribe like you.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") Where have you been?” asked the mother.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") The boy told only a little, for it seemed like a foolish dream, and he was afraid no one would believe him.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") “I fasted many days, my father; then I ate strange food that came to me.[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") I am a man now.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") My mother is wise; she will not ask any more,” and Cloud Catcher kept very quiet with his tongue.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") He grew very lonely, and after a time he found a wife who cared for his wigwam and cooked his food for four days, then she was gone; no one ever saw her again.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") He married the second wife, but when she, too, left him he remembered the moon maiden’s words, and went out in the moonlight and lay on a bed of moss.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") When he awoke he was floating through the air, and the sun chief called to him to stop at his teepee.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") There he found the girl whose face he had watched so many nights in the moon, and he never came back to earth.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [XLI. 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