Some chants were in other languages, particularly Ojibway, and all ended with the mystic phrase "we-ho-ho-ho-ho," which meant "so mote it be." The songs had titles, but these names too, were magic, and often gave no inkling of the meaning or wording of the song, and most of them avoided naming the animals or gods to which they referred, except by circumlocution, or by merely mentioning some prominent characteristic or attribute of the creature.
