Note 443 — SENECA FICTION, LEGENDS, AND MYTHS (continued 5)

The night following the morning which showed the people that all their corn had mysteriously disappeared the old woman who had asked the strange young woman whence she had come visited the lodge of the lone bridegroom and asked him where his wife was. He told her that she had returned to the lodge of her mother because of the abuse which his brother had heaped on her, and that all the good things which she had brought with her had gone away with her; and he told the old woman further that it was all due to his brother’s fault. He said that his wife could not punish the culprit without punishing all the people,443 and that he could do nothing in the matter.