PKINCE — PASSAMAQUODDY WITCHCRAFT TALES. 185 



Old Joe Benoit, the wizard, changed himself into a big- turtle. He 

 had quarreled with another man. The latter changed himself into 

 a great serpent. The wizards fought together at Ne'seyik} After 

 thi fighting, the lake was all stirred up. I heard that Joe Benoit 

 beat the other man. After the fight the other man died. 



Old Lacote, the wizard, quarreled with old Sabatis.'* Old 

 Lacote had made a dead- fall trap for bear in the woods. After he 

 had made it, he crawled in (to test it). He pulled the prop-stick, 

 touching it only a little. The prop-stick fell on him. His son 

 {however) rescued him. Lacote knew that Sabatis had bewitched 

 him. 



III. 



When I wab fi^'teen years old, I ssvv a man who was a wizard 

 He was called ^ Mvkumwess"^ (a wood-devil). He told me that he 

 had sunk into hard ground up to his ankles, and he showed me the 

 place where he had done so. I saw the tracks where he had 



walked. 



IV. 



1 heard my father (once) o^nging by night to his partner and he 

 (the partner) heard him (my father) singing when he (the partner) 

 was hunting a hundred miles away. 



My brother told me that many years ago certain wizards had a 

 quarrel. They killed one (of their number). They brought him 

 to Grand Manan.'^ where there was a steep ledge and there they 

 ate him. 



VI. 



Two men were hunting on a lake. Suddenly they heard some 

 one whooping along the lake, at the foot of the lake. They went 

 out, and again they heard him whooping. They saw him coming. 

 Right up he comes to where they are. They said to him : " Won't 

 you eat?". That man said: " I cannot stop ; I must go to where it 

 is cold, to the north." That. man must have been a KiwVkw?* 



