he uses his power. Then he places Pukjinskwes with her back to a tree.
Then she sticks fast to it; she cannot get away.
Sable and Kuloskap go away to the camp. This one, Pukjinskwes, has a
stone hatchet and with great difficulty she cuts herself loose so that
she can escape. Pogumk hears her pounding all night.
* * * * *
In the morning she comes to where they are; when they see her, she is
carrying a piece of tree on her back; they scorn her and they sing at
her: "This one leaves the chief on an island; now the chief sticks her
fast to a tree."
Then Pukjinskwes the witch is mad (with shame) and insult; she departs
forever from mankind; running wild like a vile wolf. She comes to Mount
Desert; she sits on a log; she says: "Now I shall change myself into
something to torture (mankind)." Then she cries out; she says: "A
mosquito." Always even to this day where Pogumk is, there Sable is
(also).
Now it is said that Pukjinskwes conceives children by Kiwakws, giants
and monsters; her children are all ugly; she rears others' children; she
can steal from other women their prettiest children; she rears them, as
if they were her own children. That is so that she shall not be ashamed,
so repulsive are her (own) children.
Once she had stolen a boy. Then someone asks him; he says: "That one is
not your mother;" then he sees his sisters and his brothers, how ugly
they are, like evil beasts. This then is their way, but he is handsome.
He asks his mother: "What does this mean?" His mother answers him:
"These were born in the night, but(?) you are a day child."