Note 105 — Chapter VI

Davies, “Mythology,” p. 155. Mr. Wirt Sikes quotes this story without acknowledgment, stating that the legend, “varying but little in phraseology, is current in the neighbourhood of a dozen different mountain lakes.” As if he had collected it himself! (Sikes, p. 45). Compare an Eskimo story of a girl who, having acquired angakok power, visited the ingnersuit, or underground folk, “and received presents from them; but while carrying them homewards the gifts were wafted out of her hands and flew back to their first owners” (Rink, p. 460).