Chippewa
While the medicine man Wis-kay-tchach was hunting, his young wolf
was killed by some water lynxes. Wis tried to kill one of the
lynxes to get revenge. First, he turned himself into a stump at
the edge of a lake. Frogs and snakes tried to pull the stump down,
but Wis kept himself upright. The lynx, suspicions lulled, went
to sleep. Wis returned to normal shape and, though warned to shoot
the lynx's shadow, forgot and shot its body. He shot a second
arrow at the shadow, but the lynx escaped into a river, which
then overflowed and flooded the whole country. Wis escaped in
a canoe.
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