Note 27 — Supernatural-being-who-went-naked

After he had sat there for a while the chief-woman said to him, making the sound of throwing out saliva between her teeth: “Gîtgît,27 the slave they say I am without, go and get firewood.” Then he crept out and came out of his skin outside. Then he seized with both hands a spruce, good for burning and covered with dead limbs mingled with green ones, which stood upon a knoll, and he pulled it up, roots and all. Then he threw it down from the knoll. It was broken in pieces below. Then he collected the pieces. And he carried up the bark, crept in, and put it into the fire. He piled [the wood] there, end up [in the usual way].