--- title: Wintigoes (giants). — Ojibwa myths and tales · full text with trees description: Wintigoes (giants)., «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Told by Peter York. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/15/) [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/) / [Ojibwa myths and tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/) / Wintigoes (giants). # Wintigoes (giants). Wintigoes (giants). of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw: the whole text, 15 sentences and 349 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. Told by Peter York.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") In olden times people used to believe that if a person fasted for a period of about ten or twelve days he would learn something about bears or lions, or something very strong, and if he dreamed of any of these animals he would be just as strong.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") One time a man had a dream that he could fight with the Wintigoes any time.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") He could be just as big and just as strong, and during one winter time he knew that the Wintigo was coming to eat them (i.e. his family).[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") He said to his wife “The Wintigo is coming to-night, and is going to eat us, and if my dream fails we shall be eaten by the Wintigo.”[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") The night came and the man went out to meet the Wintigo a little way off.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") The wife listened for a little while, then she heard trees flying all over and she saw two great, big men biting each other and hitting each other with great, big trees, and also with their hands.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") This kept on for a long time, till all at once it went past, and she watched if her man would come home.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") After a while he came out of the woods just as small as he was when he went out to fight.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") He said, “I won the battle for the first time since I had my dream.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") You come over with me and I will show you where I finished the Wintigo.”[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") They both went out till they came to the place where they saw, as if somebody had been underbrushing, so fierce was the battle that all the underbrush and small trees were knocked or trampled down.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") At the far end of this place they saw a great big man lying down dead, with his big kettle and a great big knife, for the Wintigo was going to kill and eat these people.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") So the man and wife went to work and gathered up wood and made a big fire and burned the Wintigo to ashes.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") NO. 16.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [The Social Problem.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/14/) - next →: [Little Lynx Story.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/16/) - ↑ back to [Ojibwa myths and tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/)