There was a lodge in the wilderness where a boy lived. He was all alone, and knew nothing of his origins, since he had awakened into consciousness just as he now found himself. He spent most of his time fasting, often going for a month at a time without eating anything at all. But now he had boiled himself some meat and was just about to bite into a piece when he heard the sound of a loud hiss. Immediately, he got up and walked outside to see who could have made this noise, but found no one. Twice more this happened, each time just as he was about to take a bite from his meat, yet on no occasion could he find out who had done this. Therefore, he did not eat. When the same thing happened a fourth time, he was determined to find out what was going on, so he ascended to the heavens and asked everyone there if they knew who had hissed at him. Everyone said they did not, so he next traversed the whole surface of the earth, with the same negative results. Then he entered below the earth and below the waters, yet no one in the nether regions knew anything. Therefore, he gave up trying to find out.

On his way home he came across a hill. From the other side he could hear a commotion of voices and wondered what it could be about, so he climbed up the hill where he could see. He saw a plain dotted here and there with oak trees. They were shouting as they shot at a gray squirrel who leapt from one tree branch to another. So he walked down and asked a man just standing by and watching, "When I was in my own lodge, someone hissed at me, and I have traveled over the whole of creation trying to find who it was. Do you know anything about this?" The man not only ignored him, but walked away. As the boy stood there feeling rebuffed, the squirrel had worked its way so that it was directly above him. The boy took out his bow and shot the squirrel dead. The others who came up were disappointed, and said sarcastically, "Well, well, it looks like he can shoot but we can't." Another man, who had been standing by watching the action, walked up to the boy and said, "They will never answer you, since these are the ones who hissed at you. I am your older brother. Grandfather sent me here to find you and take you back with me to his lodge. It was he who sent you to where you have been living. He sent you there to fast, and this you have done conscientiously since you were a small child." So he and his brother set out for their grandfather's place. The boy's brother was very unusual: he had two bodies joined at the hips, and although he had but two legs, he had four arms and two heads.

Finally they arrived at their destination. There he found his younger brother, as yet but a small boy, and his grandfather was also there. Grandfather spoke to the Forked Man and said, "He looks very promising." Then he addressed the young man and said, "Those whom you encountered were the ones who hissed at you. They did the same to me all my life, but I killed many of them. So now they are going to try you. This is what you must do: take your two brothers with you and take your little grandfather along as well. He must be very hungry by now. Look over there by the wall, that is where you will find him." The young man went over to the wall and there he found the "little grandfather", a sword. Then his grandfather cautioned him: "Don't ever cross in front of it: it is very dangerous to do such a thing. You must carry it yourself." The three brothers left, but on the way they fell into horseplay, and the youngest of them ran on ahead of the rest. Then, unexpectedly, his body split in two right down the middle. The other two brothers were shocked, and decided they had better return home with the news. When grandfather heard it, he said, "I forbade it, yet you did it anyway; so now you must put it back. However, look at the wall and there you will see another little grandfather. Take him instead." It was a baldheaded warclub, small, but it possessed the peculiar quality of having teeth. Grandfather spoke of it and gave them a charge: "It was very fond of chiefs: it used to leave nothing but their bones. It must be very hungry by now. You shall carry this back home with you." So the young man and his brother, the Forked Man, set out for where the boy had lived and carried the little grandfather with them. When they reached the lodge, the Forked Man recalled, "When I was in the wilderness, a warparty used to chase me. Let's try our little grandfather on them." His brother replied, "All right!" While they were roaming about they heard someone shout, and immediately they ran back towards their lodge; but they never made it: they were overwhelmed and taken captive. They were tied so that their backs bent backwards and the whip was laid upon them.

At the village, they were forced to do the prisoner's farewell dance. So they danced and sang all the way to the end of the village shaking the gourd as the villagers looked on from the side of the road. The young man saw his little brother dancing in front of him, but when he looked again, he saw his little grandfather. When the Forked Man saw it, he threw down his gourd and defiantly smashed it with his foot and crushed its feathered ensign along with it. The young man did the same. They were now standing before the chiefs who sat in their own separate row. The young man grabbed the warclub, and with a single swipe, it chewed up all the chiefs, leaving nothing but their bones to bleach in the sun. In like fashion they mowed down the row on the other side of the road. Now the people there rose up as one and attacked them in hoards. The little grandfather mowed them down too in their multitudes, yet they still came on. The Forked Man warned: "It is going to be very difficult now. Let's move back towards our lodge." The enemy pressed them strongly, but they were still being mowed down and chewed up. The Forked Man said, "Let's make an end of it," and each of them took one head apiece and set off for their grandfather's house. When they got there they shouted, "Grandfather we are coming back!" He threw open the door and they rolled the heads inside. All the while, the heads chattered their teeth. The old man, transposed by this victory over his old enemies, grabbed one head in each hand and danced with them and sang to himself as he did. Grandfather asked, "I am tired -- give the victory whoop for me, grandsons!" At this his grandsons gave a thunderous whoop. Even the spirits -- those under the earth and those under the water -- heard it and said among themselves, "They must have tested Wears White Feathers on His Head." "Grandfather," said the young man, "when I was blessed, the spirits of the heavens, of the earth, and of the waters counseled me and called me 'Wears White Feathers on His Head'." And he replied to his grandson, "It is good." Then the old man killed the heads.

That night the old man tossed and turned in the grips of a nightmare. When they woke him up, he told them, "It will be very difficult now for us. We must flee to your grandfather who lives on an island in the middle of the Ocean Sea. Let us go there at first light." When it was time, they left, and after a long journey they finally reached the ocean, where they could see in the distance a green island. They gave a loud shout, and they could see someone on the island's shore enter a boat and start towards them. Unfortunately, he soon returned and put his boat back on land. They turned to their grandfather and told what they had seen off in the distance. He told them, "Your grandfather is indeed a cranky old man -- I knew he would not ferry us across the waters. Open up my bag." All they found inside was a small fish hook. Their grandfather told him, "Your little grandfather used to be a great one. Throw him in the water and tell him to get the boat." So they did as they were bidden, and tossed the hook into the water, telling it, "Grandfather, go after the boat!" The hook got a hold of the boat and dragged it back with a loud rattling sound. The shrill sound of an old woman's voice could be heard from quite a distance: "I told you that you should have gone after them, as that hook never fails in anything!" After the boat came to shore, they all packed in it and headed to the old man's place. There on the island they found a long lodge and when they entered in, their grandfather said, "Ah, older brother! We have come back to you." Grandfather used to live with him, but had gone off on the warpath long ago.

The old man of the lodge said, "Brother, this island is about to be invaded -- look across the waters." They went out and looked towards the horizon, and there unexpectedly they saw a giant man whose body was painted completely red. He was about to inundate the island, so Grandfather immediately ordered his grandsons: "Get the same grandfather who fetched the boat for us and send him to get the red man." So they threw it in the water and before long it had dragged this man to the shore where they slew him and chopped off his head. They took his head and boiled it nicely and made a meal out of it. Even the old woman had some to eat. The old man of the lodge scolded his wife in a quiet tone so as not to be overheard: "You have joined in their bad affairs, and now you must have made the kettle bad." Grandfather told the men, "Go over to the other side of the island and scout it out," so they set out in that direction. At first they thought no one was around, since they couldn't see anyone, but as they listened very carefully, they could detect the sound of low voices coming from somewhere beneath the surface of the earth. They quickly returned and reported this to their grandfather. He told them, "Take little grandfather and wait there. When they get near the surface, strike them and chase after them." The little grandfather he had in mind was the warclub with teeth. When the brothers got back to the other end of the island they could hear the voices again. When the sound got very near the surface, they struck down hard with the club, which created a sizable hole. They jumped down the hole chasing after their opponents and killed many of them. When each had come out with a man's head, they knocked the top of the hole in and filled it with water. When they got back to the lodge, they boiled the heads and made a meal out of them. Again the woman ate with them, and the old man scolded her to himself. After they had finished eating, Grandfather told the brothers, "Don't go to sleep tonight, but take little grandfather and watch the center of the lodge -- they will try something during the night." So they took down the sword, as that was what their grandfather had meant. They sat waiting patiently until finally, at the very middle of the night, suddenly a snake thrust its head up from the ground at the center of the lodge. Immediately, they cut its head off. Then another serpent stuck its head up from below, and it too was beheaded. They took these heads and ate them just as they had the others before them. For two more nights the serpents tested them, and they feasted on their heads. Finally, the snakes gave up.

Wears White Feathers on His Head told them, "My mission here is complete. Now I shall returned to where I came from." He was the chief of the White Cranes, and he departed for the heavens. His brother, the Forked Man, was a forked-tailed bird, and an enemy of everything that lived on the earth. Their grandfather was what they call a Hîdja Owl, therefore he too was an enemy to those things that live on the face of the earth. The old couple that lived on the island also fought the things of the earth. They were called Tcarutcge, "Head Eaters". They were fighting the living things on earth such as mice, snakes, and such things. [1]

Commentary. "he had two bodies joined at the hips, and although he had but two legs, he had four arms and two heads" -- elsewhere, it is clear that the Forked Men represent the bow. They have a strong association with the Herok'a who represent the arrow. Here we have an allegorical description of an archer, the second head being the tip of the arrow, and the other two hands being the tips of the bow which hold the string.

"having teeth" -- a stone ax, a survival from the Mississippian culture, actually has a mouth full of sharp teeth carved in relief above its blade. [2]

"they were tied so that their backs bent backwards and the whip was laid upon them" -- this describes the bow, and the whip is the string.

"he soon returned and put his boat back on land" -- as we shall see below, the hook that eventually pulls this boat is used to describe the motion of a constellation towards the sun. So the boat should have a value in an astronomical code. The most obvious choice would be the moon, which is often compared to a boat in its crescent phase. From what is said below, the island is the sun. When the moon is about to reach conjunction, it will rise only a little above the horizon, and over a short period of days, it will conjoin with the sun and not come up at all for a couple of days. They are opposite the sun, so they reel in the moon until it is on the opposite shore, then they can ride it automatically back to the sun where it originated.

"we have come back to you" -- grandfather's older brother would seem to be the Sun. Grandfather and his entourage must be stars themselves to function in an astronomical allegory. However, what stars they are seems impossible to say. Here they come into conjunction with the sun. This is a process in which the stars were once in conjunction ("grandfather used to live with him"), but traveled away from the sun ("on the warpath"), only now to return (conjunction).

"a giant man whose body was painted completely red" -- the grandfather of the Forked Man in this story is found also in the stories The Chief of the Herok'a and the Red Man. In both these stories, he kills the character identified as "the Red Man" who in the variant tale, is said to be the Chief of the Herok'a. This man is better known as Redhorn, but also as Îtcorúcika (Wears Faces on His Ears). In the Redhorn Cycle, this spirit is killed and beheaded by the Giants. So what is his head? He loses his head when his body goes to earth and wanders headless over Necedah Mound. He is reunited with this head when he rises again into the sky, at which time he is bathed in the glow of the sunrise ("painted red"). So his head would appear to be the sun.

"to inundate the island" -- in the story Îtcorúcika and His Brothers, Redhorn is taken prisoner in the underworld of the Waterspirits. There he sets the place afire. This fire is supplied by the setting sun. This is redone in The Baldheaded Warclub Origin Myth, where the Chief of the Herok'a sets the Ocean Sea ablaze with his horn. In our present story, the threat is inverted -- instead of attacking with fire, he is in danger of attacking with water. What happens to the "island" is that it is, as we even say in English, "washed out" by the light of the sun.

"it had dragged this man to the shore" -- In Îtcorúcika and His Brothers, Redhorn falls through a false-floor trap and into the underworld where he is captured by the Waterspirits. Here, however, he is in the realm of water and is dragged up to dry land. If Wears White Feathers is Sirius, as argued eslewhere, then he and the asterism of which he is part (his relatives) begin on one side of the Milky Way, which is seen as a sea, as it is described as originating in water in the story The Origin of the Milky Way. When Sirius rises with the sun, they are on opposite sides of the Milky Way, as can be seen in the picture below.

However, in time, it is as if Sirius and its confederates have pulled the sun towards them across the sea of the Milky Way so that they are on the same side, as seen below.

"they took his head and boiled it nicely and made a meal out of it" -- in the story the victors eat the heads of the vanquished. This, at least partly, derives from the chief warrior being given the head as his portion at a feast, the theory probably being that the head is the highest part of the body and as such corresponds to the highest achiever. In Îtcorúcika and His Brothers, he burns the Waterspirits, but here he is cooked in a Waterspirit kind of way, by being boiled. In Chief of the Herok'a and in the Red Man, his head is alive and kept in the lodge fire. There it symbolizes the unity of the head with the solar fire that engulfs the constellation Orion when it disappears from view during the summer. At the opposite solstice, the sun sets just as Orion rises on the opposite side of the world. Then, gradually, day by day, Orion is inexorably dragged toward the sun, so that in mid May, the sun sets followed immediately by Orion passing under the horizon (dipping into the Ocean Sea). Thus it falls into the water under which the great fire is raging, the solar fire of the sun that has just set. This is re-imaged as his slayers now eating him -- his head is now inside the Rock Spirits and Waterspirits, that is to say, he has sunk beneath the horizon (rock and water) not to be seen again for about two months. Thus, he is "swallowed up" by the horizon.

"a forked-tailed bird" -- the Forked Man represents the bow. The two halves of the bow are like wings of a bird, and its tail, when fully drawn, is the forked tail of the feathers making up the vane of the arrow.

"Wears White Feathers on His Head" -- the name in Hotcâk is given as, m doAo rK A Ke se K (= Mâcûska-hakerega). Mâcûska means "white feather"; hakere means, according to Miner, "to wear on the head vertically." However, in a lexical note to "The Birth of the Twins," Radin has, "hakere = wear on scalp lock". [3]

"White Cranes" -- the word translated as "crane", pedjâ´, seems to be much broader in meaning, denoting all the members of the heron family. The white pedjâ´ is almost certainly the egret.

"their grandfather" -- the grandfather who is a Hîdja owl and whose grandson is a forked man, seems to correspond to the opponent of Redman. In the present story, the old man's opponent is a red man of gigantic proportions, but elsewhere his enemy is the red man who is Chief of the Herok'a. In both sources he is beheaded by the Owl Spirit.

"Tcarutcge" -- the word tca denotes the upper part of the body, paradigmatically, the head. As a homonym, it also denotes deer. The word rutc means "to eat", and the suffix -ge commonly is found in the names of animals, and may mean something like "those which". So tcarutcge would mean "those who eat the upper part of the body (specifically, the head)". It is also of interest, given the importance of the Forked Men to the story, that the word tca also means "forked".

Links: Wears Sparrows for a Coat, The Forked Man, Crane, Owls, Squirrels, Redman, Bird Spirits, Snakes, The Cave of Herok'a.

Stories: about Wears White Feathers (Wears Sparrows for a Coat): Old Man and White Feathers; featuring the Forked Man as a character: The Red Man, The Chief of the Herok'a, The Spirit of Gambling; featuring about Flint: Hare Kills Flint, The Red Man, Chief of the Herok'a, Baldheaded Warclub Origin Myth, The Adventures of Redhorn's Sons; cranes as characters: The Crane and His Brothers, How the Thunders Met the Nights, The Spirit of Gambling, Bladder and His Brothers (v. 1), The Blessing of a Bear Clansman; in which owls are mentioned: Owl Goes Hunting, Crane and His Brothers, The Spirit of Gambling, He Who Eats the Stinking Part of the Deer Ankle, The Chief of the Herok'a, Partridge's Older Brother, Warughápara, Keramanic'aka's Blessing, Old Man and White Feathers, The Annihilation of the Hotcâgara I, The Green Man; about Bird Spirits: Crane and His Brothers, The King Bird, Bird Origin Myth, Bird Clan Origin Myth, Old Man and White Feathers, The Boy who was Captured by the Bad Thunderbirds, The Thunderbird, Owl Goes Hunting, The Boy Who Became a Robin, Partridge's Older Brother, The Woman who Loved Her Half-Brother, The Foolish Hunter, Ocean Duck, Earthmaker Sends Rucewe to the Twins, The Quail Hunter, Baldheaded Warclub Origin Myth, The Hotcâk Arrival Myth, Trickster Gets Pregnant, Trickster and the Geese, Holy One and His Brother (kaghi, woodpeckers, hawks), Porcupine and His Brothers (Ocean Sucker), Turtle's Warparty (Thunderbirds, eagles, kaghi, pelicans, sparrows), Kaghíga and Lone Man (kaghi), The Old Man and the Giants (kaghi, bluebirds), The Bungling Host (snipe, woodpecker), The Red Feather, Trickster, the Wolf, the Turtle, and the Meadow Lark, Warughápara, The Race for the Chief's Daughter, Black and White Moons, The Markings on the Moon, The Creation Council, He Who Eats the Stinking Part of the Deer Ankle, Earthmaker Blesses Wagícega (Wecgícega), Hare Acquires His Arrows, Keramanic'aka's Blessing (black hawk, owl), Worúxega (eagle), The Arrows of the Medicine Rite Men (eagle), The Gift of Shooting (eagle), Hotcâk Clans Origin Myth, Wonághire Wâkcik Clan Origin Myth, The Hotcâk Migration Myth, Blue Jay, The Baldness of the Buzzard, The Abduction and Rescue of Trickster (buzzards), The Shaggy Man (kaghi), The Medicine Rite Foundation Myth (kaghi), Spear Shaft and Lacrosse, Îtcorúcika and His Brothers (Loon), Great Walker's Medicine (loon), Roaster (woodsplitter), The Spirit of Gambling, The Big Stone (a partridge), Trickster's Anus Guards the Ducks, The Fleetfooted Man, The Journey to Spiritland (v. 4) -- see also Thunderbirds; mentioning squirrels: The Brown Squirrel, Old Man and White Feathers, The Animal Spirit Aids of the Medicine Rite, Porcupine and His Brothers, The Arrows of the Medicine Rite Men, Trickster and the Eagle; mentioning snakes: The First Snakes, The Woman who Married a Snake, Blessing of the Yellow Snake Chief, Snake Clan Origins, The Omahas who turned into Snakes, A Snake Song Origin Myth, The Medicine Rite Foundation Myth, The Twins Disobey Their Father, The Two Boys, Creation of the World (vv. 2, 3, 4), The Twins Retrieve Red Star's Head, Warughápara, The Green Man, Holy One and His Brother, The Man who was Blessed by the Sun, The Warbundle of the Eight Generations, Turtle and the Merchant, The Lost Blanket, The Shell Anklets Origin Myth; in which Redman is a character: The Red Man, The Chief of the Herok'a; featuring Giants as characters: A Giant Visits His Daughter, Turtle and the Giant, The Stone Heart, Young Man Gambles Often, Spear Shaft and Lacrosse, Redhorn Contests the Giants, The Sons of Redhorn Find Their Father, Morning Star and His Friend, The Reincarnated Grizzly Bear, The Old Man and the Giants, Shakes the Earth, White Wolf, Redhorn's Father, The Hotcâgara Contest the Giants, The Roaster, Grandfather's Two Families, Redhorn's Sons, Thunder Cloud is Blessed, The Human Head, Rich Man, Boy, and Horse, Sun and the Big Eater, The Big Eater, How the Thunders Met the Nights, The Origins of the Milky Way, Ocean Duck, The Blessing of a Bear Clansman, cf. The Shaggy Man; mentioning oak: Thunderbird Clan Origin Myth, Wolf Clan Origin Myth, The Twins Retrieve Red Star's Head, The Children of the Sun, Turtle's Warparty, The Shell Anklets Origin Myth, Old Man and White Feathers, Warughápara, The Creation Council, Young Man Gambles Often, Sun and the Big Eater, Spear Shaft and Lacrosse, The Roaster, The Human Head, The Shaggy Man, Peace of Mind Regained, The Dipper (leaves); about journeys to and from Spiritland: The Four Slumbers Origin Myth, Ghost Dance Origin Myth II, The Resurrection of the Chief's Daughter, The Journey to Spiritland, The Medicine Rite Foundation Myth, The Lame Friend, Holy One and His Brother, Ghost Dance Origin Myth I, The Foolish Hunter, Warughápara, The Thunderbird, The Boy who was Captured by the Bad Thunderbirds, White Wolf, The Twins Get into Hot Water, The Two Brothers, The Lost Blanket, Earthmaker Sends Rucewe to the Twins, The Man who went to the Upper and Lower Worlds, The Petition to Earthmaker, Buffalo Dance Origin Myth, Thunder Cloud Marries Again, The Shawnee Prophet -- What He Told the Hotcâgara, Aratcgéga's Blessings, The Blessing of a Bear Clansman, The Man Whose Wife was Captured; mentioning teeth: The Animal who would Eat Men, Hare Recruits Game Animals for Humans, Hare and the Dangerous Frog, The Girl who Refused a Blessing from the Wood Spirits, The Two Boys, The Birth of the Twins, The Twins Disobey Their Father, The Dipper, Wolves and Humans, The Commandments of Earthmaker, The Children of the Sun, The Green Man, Holy One and His Brother, Partridge's Older Brother, The Brown Squirrel, Hare Secures the Creation Lodge of the Medicine Rite, The Medicine Rite Foundation Myth, East Shakes the Messenger, Lifting Up the Bear Heads, White Wolf, Buffalo Clan Origin Myth; making reference to the baldheaded warclub: Baldheaded Warclub Origin Myth, Morning Star and His Friend, Thunderbird Clan Origin Myth; mentioning the Ocean Sea (De Djâ): Trickster's Adventures in the Ocean, Hare Retrieves a Stolen Scalp (v. 1), Otter Comes to the Medicine Rite, The Baldheaded Warclub Origin Myth, Trickster and the Children, The Twins Retrieve Red Star's Head, White Wolf, How the Thunders Met the Nights (Mâznî'âpra), Bear Clan Origin Myth (vv. 2a, 3), Wolf Clan Origin Myth (v. 2), Redhorn's Sons, Grandfather's Two Families, Sun and the Big Eater, The Journey to Spiritland (v. 4), The Sons of Redhorn Find Their Father (sea), The Dipper (sea), The Thunderbird (a very wide river), Wodjidjé, The Twins Get into Hot Water (v. 1), Redhorn's Father, Trickster Concludes His Mission, Berdache Origin Myth, Thunder Cloud is Blessed, Morning Star and His Friend, How the Hills and Valleys were Formed.

This waikâ is very similar to The Man Who went to the Upper and Lower Worlds.

Themes: somatic dualism: The Girl who Refused a Blessing from the Wood Spirits, Disease Giver, The Chief of the Herok'a, Bear Clan Origin Myth, The Red Man, The Forked Man, The Man with Two Heads; a spirit is of a red color: The Red Man, The Chief of the Herok'a, The Man who was Blessed by the Sun; red as a symbolic color: The Journey to Spiritland (hill, willows, reeds, smoke, stones, haze), The Gottschall Head (mouth), The Chief of the Herok'a (clouds, side of Forked Man), The Red Man (face, sky, body, hill), Spear Shaft and Lacrosse (neck, nose, painted stone), Redhorn's Father (leggings, stone sphere, hair), The Sons of Redhorn Find Their Father (hair, body paint, arrows), The Birth of the Twins (turkey bladder headdresses), The Two Boys (elk bladder headdresses), Trickster and the Mothers (sky), Rich Man, Boy, and Horse (sky), The Blessings of the Buffalo Spirits (Buffalo Spirit), Bluehorn Rescues His Sister (buffalo head), Wazûka (buffalo head headdress), The Baldheaded Warclub Origin Myth (horn), The Brown Squirrel (protruding horn), Bear Clan Origin Myth (funerary paint), Wonághire Wâkcik Clan Origin Myth (funerary paint), Deer Clan Origin Myth (funerary paint), Thunderbird Clan Origin Myth (stick at grave), Pigeon Clan Origins (Thunderbird lightning), Trickster's Anus Guards the Ducks (eyes), Hare Retrieves a Stolen Scalp (scalp, woman's hair), The Race for the Chief's Daughter (hair), The Daughter-in-Law's Jealousy (hair), Redhorn's Sons (hair), Redhorn Contests the Giants (hair), The Woman's Scalp Medicine Bundle (hair), A Wife for Knowledge (hair), He Who Eats the Stinking Part of the Deer Ankle (hair), The Hotcâgara Contest the Giants (hair of Giantess), A Man and His Three Dogs (wolf hair), The Red Feather (plumage), The Man who was Blessed by the Sun (body of Sun), Red Bear, Eagle Clan Origin Myth (eagle), The Shell Anklets Origin Myth (Waterspirit armpits), The Twins Join Redhorn's Warparty (Waterspirits), The Roaster (body paint), The Man who Defied Disease Giver (red spot on forehead), The Wild Rose (rose), The Medicine Rite Foundation Myth (warclub), Îtcorúcika and His Brothers (ax & packing strap), Hare Kills Flint (flint), The Twins Retrieve Red Star's Head (edges of flint knives), The Mulberry Picker (leggings), The Seduction of Redhorn's Son (cloth), Yûgiwi (blanket); a spirit comes into existence as a fully mature human being but in a state of total amnesia: Morning Star and His Friend, The Mulberry Picker, The Human Head; an unseen creature hisses (blows puffs of air) at someone: The Man who went to the Upper and Lower Worlds, The Daughter-in-Law's Jealousy, The Brown Squirrel, The Dipper, Hare Kills a Man with a Cane; blowing upon a person: The Red Man, Redhorn and His Brothers Marry, The Two Children, The Man who went to the Upper and Lower Worlds, The Chief of the Herok'a, Aratcgéga's Blessings; a fruitless visit to the upper and lower worlds: The Man who went to the Upper and Lower Worlds, The Lost Blanket, Îtcorúcika and His Brothers; many people shoot at an animal in the trees, but only an outsider succeeds in hitting it: The Red Feather; despite the assistance of a great spirit, and a determined fight, a group of brothers must flee to a place of safety: Porcupine and His Brothers, Turtle's Warparty, The Man Who went to the Upper and Lower Worlds; head hunting: Big Thunder Teaches Tcaposgaga the Warpath, A Man's Revenge, How Little Priest went out as a Soldier, Bluehorn's Nephews, The Twins Retrieve Red Star's Head, The Boy who was Blessed by a Mountain Lion, Young Man Gambles Often, The Dipper, The Four Slumbers Origin Myth, Porcupine and His Brothers, Turtle's Warparty, Ocean Duck, The Markings on the Moon, The Red Man, The Chief of the Herok'a, Thunderbird and White Horse, The Man with Two Heads, Brave Man, The Sons of Redhorn Find Their Father, Redhorn's Sons, Fighting Retreat, The Children of the Sun, The Were-Grizzly, Winneconnee Origin Myth; someone is abducted and led off into captivity: The Captive Boys, A Man's Revenge, Bluehorn's Nephews, Îtcorúcika and His Brothers, Bird Clan Origin Myth, The Man Whose Wife was Captured, Bladder and His Brothers, The Boy who was Captured by the Bad Thunderbirds, Bluehorn Rescues His Sister, The Boy who was Blessed by a Mountain Lion, The Green Man, Brave Man, The Chief of the Herok'a, Cûgepaga, Hare Gets Swallowed, The Raccoon Coat, Wodjidjé, Wolves and Humans, The Woman Who Became an Ant, Thunderbird and White Horse, The Boy who Flew, Testing the Slave; a prisoner escapes by killing (some of) his captor(s): Îtcorúcika and His Brothers, Hare Acquires His Arrows, Thunderbird and White Horse, The Boy who Flew, Hare Gets Swallowed, The Raccoon Coat, Wodjidjé, The Captive Boys; a man long abused by his enemy comes to dance with his enemy's head in his hand singing to himself as he does so: The Children of the Sun; the severed head of an enemy chatters its teeth: The Children of the Sun; a spirit is of a red color: Wears White Feathers on His Head, The Red Man, The Chief of the Herok'a.

Genealogy: Chief of the White Cranes (+ Hîdja Owl Spirit, The Forked Man, the Tcarutcge).

Notes:

[1] Paul Radin, "Wears White Feathers on His Head," Winnebago Notebooks (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society) #4, pp. 1-50.

[2] David H. Dye, "Art, Ritual, and Chiefly Warfare in the Mississippian World," in Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South (New Haven: Yale University Press and The Art Institute of Chicago, 2004) 202, Fig. 27, from Spiro Mound, AD 1300-1400.

[3] Sam Blowsnake, Waretcáwera, in Paul Radin, Notebooks (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, ca. 1908) Winnebago V, #11: 49, note at the top of the page.