[2] This refers to the old custom of seclusion during puberty. [↑]
[3] By doing so she became pregnant. Magical conception occurs in the culture-hero story of the Algonkian, Iroquoian, and Yuchi tribes. [↑]
[4] An episode strikingly similar to one found among the Penobscot and other Eastern Algonkians. [↑]
[6] Onomapoetic term in diminutive. [↑]
[7] Rock-tripe, an edible fungus made into soup and eaten in time of famine. Nenebuc had this experience on a ledge near the eastern shore of Smoothwater lake (see map). [↑]
[8] This big snake became a high rocky ridge on the portage south of Smoothwater lake (see map above referred to). [↑]
[9] The lake is Smoothwater lake, Cųcawa′gami “smooth lake” (see map above referred to). This is the scene of the world transformation. [↑]
[10] The cave is in a high bluff on the west shore of Smoothwater lake. On the eastern shore is where Nenebuc fell down the rocks and made wa′kwan. [↑]