THE LURE IN STANLEY PARK

But the lure in Stanley Park is that most
dreaded of all things, an evil soul. It is em-
bodied in a bare, white stone, which is shunned
by moss and vine and lichen, but over which
are splashed innumerable jet-black spots that
have eaten into the surface like an acid.

This condemned soul once animated the
body of a witch-woman, who went up and
down the coast, over seas and far inland, cast-
ing her evil eye on innocent people, and bring-
ing them untold evils and diseases. About
her person she carried the renowned “Bad
Medicine” that every Indian believes in-
medicine that weakened the arm of the war-
rior in battle, that caused deformities, that
poisoned minds and characters, that engen-
dered madness, that bred plagues and epi-
demics; in short, that was the seed of every
evil that could befall mankind. This witch-
woman herself was immune from death; gen-
erations were bom and grew to old age, and
died, and other generations arose in their
stead, but the witch-woman went about, her
heart set against her kind; her acts were evil,
her purposes wicked, she broke hearts and
bodies and souls; she gloried in tears, and
revelled in unhappiness, and sent them
broadcast wherever she wandered. And in His
high heaven the Sagalie Tyee wept with
sorrow for His afliicted human children. He

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