which he describes.

In this and other tales a man is represented as being punished by being
turned into a tree, so that he can never leave a certain spot. This is
a kind of imprisonment. In the Edda the Ash Yggdrasil is the prison of
Iduna.

"She ill brooked
her descent
under the hoar tree's
trunk confined."

(_Hrofnagaldr Odins_, 7.)

It is to keep a man or a woman in a certain place, as prisoner, that
the characters described in the Indian and Norse myths are put into
trees.

This was related to Mr. Rand by Benjamin Brooks, a Micmac.]




_Of Glooskap and the Sinful Serpent._

(Passamaquoddy.)


Of old time it befell that Glooskap had an enemy, an evil man, a sinful
beast, a great sorcerer. And this man, after trying many things, made