A TALE OF THE GRAND JAEDIN 



"You have heard, perhaps, the belief 

 of the Montagnais, strange medley of 

 Paganism and Christianity, that those 

 who die insane without the blessing of a 

 priest become wendigos, werewolves, 

 with nothing human but their form, 

 soulless beings of diabolic strength and 

 cunning, that wander for all time seek- 

 ing only to harm whomever comes their 

 way. A black superstitious race these 

 Indians are, and horribly sincere in 

 their faith. They shot down a young 

 girl with the beads of her rosary, be- 

 cause her mind was weakening, and they 

 thought thus to avert the fate from her, 

 and themselves. You would not doubt 

 the truth of this, had you seen the look 

 in the eyes of the man who told me that 

 he had been a helpless witness of the 

 murder. 



"I have never spoken of what hap- 

 pened to me the following summer, be- 

 cause one does not like to be disbelieved : 

 perhaps to-night, with the storm-hags 



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