Cihcipistikwân, the Rolling Head, opens the sacred-story cycle of the Cree. A married woman kept serpents as lovers; her husband killed them and then beheaded her, and her severed head remained alive and rolled in pursuit of her two fleeing sons, who threw behind them gifts from their father that became obstacles across her path. The elder of the boys grew up to be Wîsahkêcâhk, the transformer and trickster, and the younger became the Wolf; the head itself was at last destroyed at a river crossing. Recorded from Plains Cree tellers by Edward Ahenakew in the 1920s and studied comparatively across the Algonquian world, the Rolling Head remains one of the most widely told of the âtayôhkêwina, and places in Saskatchewan are still associated with her story.