BRITISH NORTH AMERICA
NENEBUC[1]
Ojibwa
ONCE a girl told her father to put his wooden dish before the fire upside down and look under it every morning for five mornings. Then she went to live in the sun.
The father did as he was told. On the first morning he looked under the upturned dish, and there sat Nenebuc. The next morning he looked under again, and there sat Nenebuc's brother with him. So he did for the five days. Nenebuc and his four brothers had all come to earth to live. Then the old man picked up the dish and put it away.
Now one brother had horns on his head. Grandfather said to him, "You can't stay here; you go west!" and he sent him out to the edge of the Darkening Land. Then he sent another brother to the east and one to the
- ↑ The name appears under various spellings Manibozho, Nanebojo, etc. Nenebuc appears among many tribes centering around the Great Lakes, though the myth is essentially Ojibwa. Other versions of it, received from the American Ojibwas, will be found in the author's Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes.
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