Ask-wee-da-eed is a Native American mythological figure of the Algonquian Abenaki people. The figure is a shaman who is half-snake, half-man. He forces humans to find the materials with which he would cook them, before he was killed by Moosbas.http://www.mandrake-press.co.uk/Main_article/native_american_mythology.html Mandrake Article
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