--- title: Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh. — Ojibwa myths and tales · full text with trees description: Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh., «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The story of the woman who visited a man who lived in a tree, and who could change himself into a serpent when he wished. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/7/) [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/) / Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh. # Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh. Ne-we-no-nah K’she Mŭh. of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw: the whole text, 42 sentences and 890 words. 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The story of the woman who visited a man who lived in a tree, and who could change himself into a serpent when he wished.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") Told by Peter York.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") A very long time ago there was an Indian who lived with his family in the wilderness or wild bush where nobody was to be seen.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") This man lived by hunting wild game.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") One time he noticed his wife dressing up very nice.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") This kept on for a good many days.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") One day the oldest boy told his father that the mother went away every time the father left camp for hunting.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") The man thought that he would watch her, so he went away one morning, but went only a little way and watched the camp.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") After a little while the wife came out dressed in her best.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") She went out in the bush and the man followed to see what she would do.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") She went to a big tree and stood at the foot of the tree and rapped, just the same as a person would do on a house door.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he saw a very nice man come out of the tree and observed what was going on, so he thought he would kill his wife as soon as she got back to camp.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") When he got home he made a big fire and told his two children (boys) what he was going to do, and also told them what to do when he (the father) would run away.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") His wife came home in the evening and he killed her and burned her in the fire.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") He then told his boys “if they saw the sky red that would show them that he (their father) was killed by his wife’s sweetheart.”[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") The next day they saw the sky red which showed them that their father was killed, so they ran away themselves.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") Before their father went away he told them that their mother would follow them though she was dead, so the father gave them some things to use in case they wanted help; an awl, a stone, and a thorn.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") When they saw their mother coming, they threw the stone down, when it became a big mountain, and the two boys went a long way before their mother was able to get over the mountain and catch up to them.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") When she came close again the boys threw the thorn down when it became a very big bush of thorn trees (Haw trees), which gave the two boys a chance to get ahead a good bit before she got through.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") When she got close again the boys threw the awl down, which became many hundred awls with their points sticking up, but she managed to get over them and kept on trying to get her children.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") The boys came to a big river and saw a big snail which they asked to take them across the river.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") The big snail stretched himself across the river and the two boys got across.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") When the mother got to the river she also asked the big snail to take her over.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") The snail told her he would, but when about half way across the snail dropped the woman into the river, and that was the last of her.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") The two boys went on and came to a lake where nobody was to be seen only themselves.[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") The big boy made a little bow and arrow for his little brother.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") After a little while they saw someone coming in a log canoe, who turned out to be a bad old man.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") As soon as the old man saw the two boys he made up his mind to take one of them and leave the other, so he told the little boy with the bow and arrow to shoot up in the air.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") The arrow dropped into the canoe, and the old man told the big boy to come and get it.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") As soon as the big boy got in the canoe the old man pushed out quickly and left the little boy behind.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") The big boy asked the old man to take his brother along but the old man said “No!”[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") When they got to the old man’s place the big boy was locked up (confined) for a good many days and could not get a chance to run away.[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") One day the old man told the big boy that if he wanted to go out with him he could go.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") They came to a big hill and he asked the boy to go for a sleigh ride down the hill.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") The old man wanted the boy to sit in front but the boy chose to sit behind.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") There were stumps and stones down the hill and as they went down the hill very fast, the boy thought to hit a stone and kill the old man, which he did.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") Then the boy thought about his little brother and went back and looked for him.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") When he got to the place where his brother was left he saw a wolf which was his brother who had become half a wolf and half a boy.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") Which all Indians believe to be where the wolf came from.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") The boy got too hungry and became part wolf.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") This ends this story.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") NO. 8.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76755/6/) - next →: [Ojibwa and Mohawk. 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