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woods. Every bush she saw she
bit off, and from one of these she came to be with child.
She grew bigger and bigger until at last
she could travel no longer, but built a wigwam near the mouth of a
stream. The woman gave birth to a child in the night. She thought it
best to kill the child, but did not wish to murder her offspring.[27]
[Footnote 27: By combining this story with some given by Leland
it would seem that the child was Glooscap. If that is so, this is the
only account in Passamaquoddy lore in which his parthenogenetic origin
is traced. Mrs. Brown insists,
however, that

the medicine man was not Glooscap.] At last she decided to make a
canoe of bark, and in it she put her child and let it float down the
river. The water of the river was rough, but
the child was not harmed, or even wet.[28]
It floated down to an Indian
village, and was stranded on the shore near a
group of wigwams. A woman of the village found the baby on the shore
and brought
it to her home. Every morning, after the baby had
been brought to the place, a baby of the village died. The Indians did
not know what the matter was until they noticed that the waif which
the woman had found in the bark on the river bank went to the river
every night and returned shortly after. A woman watched to see what
this had to do
with the death of
the babes, and she saw the child, when it returned to the
wigwam, bring a tongue of a little child, roast and eat it. Then it
laid down to sleep. The next morning another child
died, and then the Indian knew that its tongue had been cut out. It
was therefore believed that the strange child had killed the baby.
They deliberated as to what
they should do with the murderer. Some said, cut him in pieces and
cast the fragments into the river. Others said, cut him up and burn
the fragments. This, after much consultation, they did. They burnt the
fragments of the child until nothing but the ashes remained. Everybody
thought it dead, but the next morning it came back to camp again, with
a little tongue as before, roasted and ate the morsel.
The next morning another child was found