Case file · Folklore / legend
Cautantowwit, the Narragansett creator
Roger Williams, founder of Providence, recorded in 1643 that the Narragansett honoured Cautantowwit, the creator who lived in the southwest and to whose house the souls of the good returned.
1643 CE · 41.82, -71.41 · status: legend
The account
Williams's 'A Key into the Language of America' is the main early source. The warm southwest wind of Indian summer was said to blow from Cautantowwit's court.