[4] See the story of [Supernatural-being-who-went-naked], note [31]. [↑]
[5] According to the statements of the shamans. [↑]
He who married the daughter of the devilfish chief
[Told by Walter McGregor of the Sea-lion-town people]
He was going along in his canoe with his two children and his wife. It was low tide. After he had gone along for a while [he came to a place] where devilfish stones lay. A great quantity of leavings from its (the devilfish’s) food were piled up there. He got off to kill it. Then, while he was punching it with a stick the devilfish came out. Immediately it wound itself around him and pulled him into its hole.
And, after his wife and children had remained there for a while, the rocks were covered with water, and they went away from him. Then the woman went home. She expected never to get him back.
The [devilfish] woman took him to her father’s town. At that time he heard them use bad words[1] to the hair seals. When day broke he hunted about for food among the waves below the capes, they used to say. He remained with her in her father’s town.
After many years had passed he remained in bed two mornings. At that time the chief asked his daughter: “Why does your husband feel badly?” Then she said to her father: “He says he is homesick for his mother and his sister.” Then he was going to let him go home with his daughter.
Now he said: “Two canoes are lying at the end of the town. Have them launched for yourselves.” At once they launched two canoes in front of the house, and they began to put things, with which the inside of the house was full, into them. Before they had taken even a little the canoes were filled. Then she went in one and her husband in the other. Although there were no paddlers the canoes went along.