[Footnote 29:  Dr. Rand (American Antiquarian, p. 8, vol. xii.  No. 1) mentions a personage (Koolpejot) as “rolled over by means of a handspike.”  He is a great medicine man:  he has no bones, always lies out in the open air, and is rolled over from one side to the other twice a year, during spring and fall.  He adds that an intelligent Indian once suggested that this was a figurative representation of the revolution of the seasons.]

Once upon a time a young man who wished the love of women went to him and asked for a love potion.  The old man said, “Turn me over.”  The young man turned the conjurer over and found under him an herb.  The old man told him he must not give this away or throw it away.  The young man went home to his wigwam.  On his return home all the women of the place followed him, everywhere and at all times.  He longed to be alone, and did not like to have the women so much about him.  At last he was so much troubled by them that he went back to the conjurer and gave back the medicine to the medicine man, who took the herb, and the young man went away without it.  Another man went to the conjurer for medicine.  The old man said, “What do you want?” He said, “I want to live as long as the world stands.”  The old man said the request was hard to grant, but he would try to answer it.  The conjurer, as was his wont, said, “Turn me over,” and underneath his body was the herb.  Then the conjurer told the man who wished to live forever to go to a place which was bare of everything, so bare indeed that it was destitute of all vegetation, and to stand there.  He pointed out the place to him.  This the man did, and, looking back at the conjurer, branches grew out all over him, and he was changed into a cedar tree.  He is useless to every one, and there he will stand forever.

The first part of this story strongly reminds one of the story of Moses, and may have been due to contact with Europeans.  It is to be remarked that the mother of the child became pregnant by eating an herb.  The child is therefore parthenogenetic.  According to Leland, the medicine man who turned the man into a cedar tree is Glooscap.  Glooscap performed many such miracles, as in the case of the story of the animals.  In another story the father of Glooscap is mentioned as a being who lives under a great fall of water down in the earth.  His face is half red, and he has a single eye.  In another he can give to any one coming to him medicine to grant him whatever he wishes, and in still another Glooscap is now sharpening his arrows way off in some distant place.  He will return to earth and make war.

“On whom will he make war?” “He will make war on all, kill all:  there will be no more world; world all gone.  Dunno how quick,—­mebbe long time:  all be dead then, mebbe—­guess it will be long time.”

“Are any to be saved by any one?” “Dunno.  Me hear some say world all burn up some day; water all will take fire.  Some good ones be taken up in good heavens, but me dunno; me just hear that.  Only hear so."[30]