Brewer's: Nokomis

Daughter of the Moon. Sporting one day with her maidens on a swing made of vine canes, a rival cut the swing, and Nokomis fell to earth, where she gave birth to a daughter named Wenonah.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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