Note 44 — Chapter II · MYTHS AND FOLK-LORE OF THE TIMAGAMI OJIBWA.

Then he made his mi·te′o wigwam with its seven poles and covered it with bark.44 He went into it and it began to work and move, while a band of spirits could be heard singing inside.45 Then Windigo came there and Gitcikwe′we said to his wife, “We will clinch him and take him away out west where he came from.” When he clinched him, the conjuring wigwam shook and made a noise like thunder, and the children fainted from fright, for they knew their father was inside. When they recovered consciousness, everything was still in the wigwam, and their father had gone out west, taking his captive with him. A little while after this the wigwam started to move again and Gitcikwe′we was back again from his trip out west. He said to his family, “We will be all right now. I took him back west. He is very sick from his fright but he will stay there now.”