" "Yes,"
was her reply. So she became his wife. [Footnote: This is the true end of
this Indian Cupid and Psyche legend. But the Micmacs having, for no
apparent reason, made the Stupendous Deity of the Heavens a moose
(Team), have added to it another for the sake of the name, and which I
give in due succession simply as an illustration of the manner in which
tales are tacked together. I have very little doubt that the story as
here given is an old solar myth, worked up, perhaps, with the story of
Cinderella, derived from a Canadian-French source. There are enough of
these French-Indian stories in my possession alone to form what would
make one of the most interesting volumes of the series of the _Contes
Populaires_. The Passamaquoddy version is to this effect: "There was
a great being, a mighty hunter, who had a wife, of wonderful magic
gifts, and a boy; and the child became blind. After a long time his
sight returned, and he said so; but his mother was suspicious, and did
not believe him." It is evident that she suspected that he saw by
_clairvoyance_, not by literal vision. "So one day she bade her
husband put on certain things which no one could behold who did not see
them in truth. Then she asked the boy, 'What has your father for a
sled-string?' (literally for a moose-runner haul). And he replied, 'The
rainbow to haul by.' Then she asked him yet again, 'What has he for a
bow-string?' And he answered, '_Ke'taksoo wowcht_;' 'The Spirits'
or Ghosts' Road.
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