v, p.

420.)] [Footnote 2: When Father Buteux was among the Algonkins, in 1637, they explained to him the lightning as "a great serpent which the Manito vomits up." (_Relation de la Nouvelle France_, An.

1637, p.

53.) According to John Tanner, the symbol for the lightning in Ojibway pictography was a rattlesnake.

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