The Will-am-alone is a quick little animal, like a squirrel, that rolls in its fingers poison lichens into balls and drops them into the ears and on the eyelids of sleeping men in hunting camp, causing them to have strange dreams and headaches and to see unusual objects in the snow. It is the hardest drinkers in the camp who are most susceptible to this poison and hard liquor in combination with the pellets of the Will-am-alone causes the victims upon arising to believe they will surely die.