Snow Boy is the Lenape spirit of snow and winter cold. In the recorded tale he is born to a young woman with no known father; as an infant he freezes the fingers of other children who anger him, and is finally set adrift down the river on a cake of ice, promising to return each year as the snow. His story carries a double aspect: the harmful side of winter, which numbs and blackens with cold, and its benevolent side, for the snow that is his body spread upon the ground lets hunters follow the tracks of game. He is distinguished from 'Our Grandfather of the North,' who merely supplies the north wind, and offerings were made to Snow Boy to ensure enough snow for the winter hunt.