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The chief village of the Ohyahtswas at a bay called Keeh-him between Bamfield and Cape Beale, Barkley Sound. THE LEGEND OF EUT-LE-TEN THE WITCH E-ISH-SO-OOLTH Long, long ago, in the gloom of deep and silent woods there lived awitch or evil chehah. The Indians called her E-ish-so-oolth. So tallwas she that, stalking through the forest, her head would brush thelower branches of the giant fir. She dwelt in a huge lodge, the walls of which were built of cedarlogs as thick as men are high. This evil... chehah was the dread ofyoung and old alike, for all believed that boys and girls and evenmen and women, who left their homes, not to return again, weretaken to her lodge, there to be devoured at leisure. Thereforemothers often said, when children misbehaved, "Be good or I willcall E-ish-so-oolth. " One day some Keeh-hin village children paddled from their home andlanded on a nearby shore. Then something happened causing one tocry, and all the others scolding, threatened to call E-ish-so-oolth. The threat had no effect and the child cried on, till one in teasingspirit called loudly, "E-ish-so-oolth!
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