Those monsters liked to eat children. They killed them. They didn't eat old people, just the children. T he daughter of Basket Ogress, little Tree Roots, lived. Coming generations will now be all right, because the monsters were killed.
T hat is the end.
A Note About Different Tale Versions T here may be as many versions of some oral-history tales as there are tellers, even within one tribe. I n different bands, different tribes, variants of the same story or what seem to be similar stories, or stories that clearly have some similar elements, perhaps borrowed can be found. No Northwest Coast adults really believed there was a Basket Ogress who carried off disobedient or otherwise bad children and ate them, for example. This was something like telling very littl kids now that if you're not good, Santa won't bring you any presents. The children are not always selfish.