(51) He [Midjistéga] was a bad man and was finally killed. He was one who drank a great deal and every time he drank, he made his canine protrude as in the previous story. He was also a murderer. He was stabbed again and again but he could always heal himself and for that reason he wasn't afraid of killing anyone. The friends of those whom he had killed were continually seeking revenge so they finally got him real drunk and tied him up and cut his stomach (53) open and took a bean-stick and ran it up this wound to his heart and kept doing this till they tore his heart to shreds. [1]

Commentary. "the previous story" -- for this incident, see Midjistéga.

Links: Witches.

Stories: mentioning Midjistega: Midjistéga; mentioning witches or warlocks: The Witch Men's Desert, The Thunder Charm, The Wild Rose, The Seer, Turtle and the Witches, Great Walker and the Anishinaabe Witches, The Claw Shooter, Midjistéga, The Mesquaki Magician, The Tap the Head Medicine, Keramanic'aka's Blessing, Battle of the Night Blessed Men and the Medicine Rite Men, The Shawnee Prophet -- What He Told the Hotcâgara, v. 2, Îtcorúcika and His Brothers, Thunder Cloud Marries Again, Paint Medicine Origin Myth, The Woman's Scalp Medicine Bundle, Potato Magic.

Themes: a witch is attacked while he is drunk: The End of Midjistéga's Life.

Notes:

[1] "End of Megistega's Life" in Paul Radin, Notebooks, Freeman #3881 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1908) Winnebago I, #7a: 51-53.