The lake is the water inside a pumpkin or a gourd.
At a Huron healing ritual, a guest puts this riddle to the others: “What I desire, and what I am looking for, is something that carries a lake inside it.” What is it?
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It grows in a field, and a dried-out one makes a good bowl.
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A pumpkin
Source: Huron, recorded by the Jesuit Jérôme Lalemant, c. 1639