Sometimes an Indian hears in the forest a noise as if some one were chopping or striking a tree. This is produced by a being with a head like a big ax head. Neka- camôn, New Spirit,' passes from east to west every spring and returns from west to east in the fall. He is described as a red man without a head, and a noise accompanies him as if ten thousand cans were hung about him and rattled against each other. As he goes he says "Hu-u-u-uip, hu-u-u-ui'p" (a kind of whistling sound) , though how this is accomplished by a headless individual is not explained.

A long time ago a being with a long nose came out of the ocean and began to kill people. It would root up trees with its nose to get at persons who had sought refuge in the branches, and people lived on scaffolds to get away from it. It made its home in a piece of wood near Charenton, and when guns were introduced the people went into this wood to kill the monster, but could not find it. When the elephant was seen it was thought to be the same creature, and was consequently called Neka- ci'ckami' , 'Long-nosed-spirit.'