He stripped it of its skin, and clothing himself in this trophy of conquest, drove all the other serpents to the south.[1] As it is in the south that, in the country of the Ojibways, the lightning is last seen in the autumn, and as the Algonkins, both in their language and pictography, were accustomed to assimilate the lightning in its zigzag course to the sinuous motion of the serpent,[2] the meteorological character of this myth is very manifest.
[Footnote 1: H.R.Schoolcraft, _Algic Researches_, Vol.

i, p.

179, Vol.
ii, p.117.The word _animikig_ in Ojibway means "it thunders and lightnings;" in their myths this tribe says that the West Wind is created by Animiki, the Thunder.

(Ibid.

_Indian Tribes_, Vol.