When it ended there was a loud sound
as of some heavy body falling and striking the earth, which fairly
shook. The next morning he called all his friends and the married
brother, and showed them a human corpse. "Now leave me," he said. "Go
to my friend and tell him that I have food for him." The Indians did
so, and in horror left the two cannibals to devour their disgusting
meal. When the insane youth was satisfied, his friend asked, "Have you
had enough?" He replied that he had. [Footnote: The human body which
supplied the meal was probably in reality a deer, or some such animal.]
Then the magician said, "You are bewitched by the girl who forbade you
to go hunting; she knew you would find a maid better than she is. Now
come with me."
They went to a small lake; they sat down by its side; the sorcerer
began his magic song. And as he sang the waters opened; from the
disturbed waves rose a huge Weewillmekq', a creature like an alligator,
with horns. And, as the terrible being came ashore, the magician said,
"Go and scrape somewhat from his horn and bring it here!" The young man
had become fearless; he went and did as he was bid: he scraped the
horn, and brought the scraping.
"Now, my friend," said the magician, "let us try this on a tree." There
was a large green beech growing by them. It was simply touched with the
fragment from the horn when another color spread all over the bark as
rapidly as the eye could follow it: in an instant it was dead, and in a
few minutes more it fell to the ground, utterly rotten, as if it were a
century old.
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