Some Aspects of Puberty Fasting Among the Ojibwa volume 2
Some Aspects of Puberty Fasting Among the Ojibwa volume 2
Paul Radin
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As soon as he leaves his fasting lodge, he starts to run. The fast runner gets after him and soon he catches him. Then they all ask the faster what spirit had blessed him. After that they give him a little song, and then he tells them by whom he had been blessed. By a very thin man (a pagak spirit) he had been blessed.^ FASTING EXPERIENCE (E).^ When a child was ten years of age, it generally started to fast. For a few days, sometimes a week, it was given nothing to eat except a little for suppe...r. This was only preliminary to the real ^Pagak are thin airy spirits who formerly inhabited this earth, but who became so attenuated that they ascended into the air, where they still live, flying around and making peculiar sounds. It was formerly believed that if anyone heard them he would die. *This is a generalized account. PUBERTY PASTINO AMONG THE OJIBWA. 7 fasting, which began after that. After the child has fasted for a few days, the parents or grandparents l)uild a little; wigwani in a lonely spot of the woods.
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