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There you can still see the great holes made by their stamping feet, and the 
outlines of the head, body, and limbs of one of the giants. 
Wherever there is a dangerous rapid or fall on a river there must be an 
evil manido; so the Indian travelling in his canoe throws a little tobacco 
into the water to pay for a safe passage. 
If two or three children die simultaneously in a village the Ojibwa fear 
that an evil manido has killed them. Where Pegahmagabow's home now 
stands on Parry island an evil jnanido once destroyed an entire village 
because the people made too much noise at night. So now if any one falls 
ill in this place the Indians fear that an evil manido has carried off or 
destroyed his soul and that he will surely die. 
Some Georgian Bay Ojibwa once heard two manidos conversing in 
Henvey inlet, near French river. One was scolding the other for doing 
wrong, and reminding it that the Great Spirit had instructed them to do no 
evil, but to remain in their appointed places as long as the earth lasted and 
to take care of his Indian children. 
On Christian island there is a small lake 5 or 6 feet deep where a huge 
snake haunts two large holes in a rock under the water. If any one lingers 
on this lake, fishing for trout, the snake causes the water around the holes 
to circulate and boil. Whenever this happens the Indians flee. 
At Moon river, Jonas King said, there dwells a manido about 6 feet 
high that has horns, claws, and other appurtenances like a devil. People 
have seen it, and though it has hitherto done no harm no Indian will camp 
or land at the place. 
“ Near French river are two big rocks, round below, square on top, and with a 
narrow crack between them. Formerly they were one. But once a hunter named 
W abskitjanamshin, who was travelling from lake Nipissing to Georgian bay with 
many furs in his canoe, saw the rock sway from side to side andl heard! a voice 
calling 
‘ W abskitjanamshin is listening to us.’ 
The hunter was annoyed at the remark and shot his arrow into the middle of 
the rock, where it caused the crack that remains to this day. He then continued 
down the river, but the manido that dwelt in the rock made him drift over a fall 
and lose all his furs. The Georgian Bay Ojibwa now call the two rocks Djiskan, 
‘Conjurer’s lodge,’ and sing the words given above as a kind of refrain" (Jonas 
King). 
An evil manido that lived close to a sandy cliff in Thunder bay used to molest 
or upset the occupants of all canoes that passed by. A little over a hundred years ago 
an old man, his wife, and their daughter approached the place and the manido 
carried off the girl. Her parents paddled on, weeping, pitched their wigwam on the 
beach, and went to look for their daughter. They found her bodiy near their camp 
where the manido had deposited it, and buried it where it lay. 
After this the manido went to Sandy island near Parry sound. There it put its 
tail over a canoe in which three young women had gone out to gather rushes for 
mats, and tried to upset it. The middle girl, who had received a blessing from 
thunder, cut its tail in two with her paddle. It fell into the canoe, wriggled for a 
moment, and leaped into the water. The manido disappeared, and the girls returned 
home unscathed. 
Then it went all round Georgian bay, but other manidos in the district, knowing 
its evil nature, would not allow it to live with them. So it continued on to French 
river and remained midway between lakes Huron and Nipissing. An Indian 
family stopped) to camp near the place. Before the parents had finished setting up 
their wigwam the manido carried off their baby. They searched for it, weeping, and 
heard it crying from inside a high rock, the manido's home. After a time the crying 
ceased; the manido had killed the child. The parents travelled on to their people 
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