La légende du vent du Nord et Nekicik
Dubé, Suzanne
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Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory
Rencontre
1986-01-01T00:00:00.000Z 1986 1986-01-01T00:00:00.000Z 1986
n. 2
vol. 8
p. 14-15
continuing
French
Fiction Oeuvre d’imagination
Aboriginal Autochtones
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A long time ago, there was no winter, only summer, although the four directions existed. Nekicik, a young rabbit, befriended the wind from the North. He played a trick on his friend and the wind got so angry that he blew until it snowed. The other winds attempted to calm him down but to no avail. Nekicik blew away as far as the South pole, where he found the wind of the South almost covered in snow. Nekicik figured he had to journey back to the North to appease his friend and burrowed in the snow so as not to get blinded by the sun’s reflection on the snow. He emerged all white, and that is why rabbits’ fur turns white during the winter. One month later he arrived back in the North where the wind of the North was exhauted as well. Seeing Nekicik, the wind calmed and took his friend in his arms. Exhausted and freezing, Nekicik fell asleep; the wind thought his friend had died and called the other three winds for help, but they were trapped under the snow. He cried so much that torrential waters covered the lands, and thawed the snow. The other winds blew so as to put things back in balance. Nekicik apologized for scaring his friend and the four winds agreed to share their powers so that things would never be out of balance again
