Flesh (Warora) is one of the two heroes of the Ho-Chunk Twin Cycle, representing the body in a pairing where his twin brother represents the soul or ghost. The twins were born when their pregnant mother was killed and her womb opened by an old man; one boy was hidden in a hollow stump and the other left in the lodge, and after their father reunited them they became famous monster-slayers, ranging the world to destroy serpents, leeches, thunderbirds, and ogres — though at times they killed creatures they ought to have spared. Radin treated their story as one of the central Winnebago hero cycles.