History of ancient Woodbury, Connecticut, from the first Indian deed in 1659 to 1854 ... including the present towns of Washington, Southbury, Bethlem, Roxbury, and a part of Oxford and Middlebury.

880 HISTORY OF ANCIENT WOOD BU RYo
also in the writer's possession.
It is no less than an Indian idol
or charm, artistically cut from a V
piece of rock, which appears to
have been originally a piece of
petrified walnut wood. It was
found in 1860, on the lot near F. 1
M. Minor's, before mentioned as
the place where the most perfect
specimens have been found. It
was discovered while hoeing cornn
It evidently represents some animal, but it is difficult to divine
what. It has a pretty well formed head and body, with large,
round ears, and holes for the insertion of four legs, but the latter
are missing. It looks as much
like the representative of an
enormous lizard, as any thing. It
can hardly represent the Good
Spirit. It is not of a sufficiently
attractive conception for that. It
may, therefore, be presumed to
be the likeness of Hobbamocko, or
their Spirit of Evil, whom they
feared, and worshipped more assiduously than the Good Spirit,
whom they supposed lived quite
at his ease, caring little for the
actions or affairs of his red children, after having given them their
corn, beans and squash, and taught
them the mode of their cultivation. Some of these, relics our01
artist has endeavored to make
plain to the " mind's, eye."
It is not known when Pompe- \
raug, from whom this valley was 2 ~
named, became sachem of the Po- ~
otatucks. At,the date of the set- ~'