The Clan of Munes

The Clan of Munes is a fantasy novel and children's book by American painter and illustrator Frederick Judd Waugh.

He collects some of the spruce woods lying around, builds characters out of them and brings them to life by showering them with a magic potion and burying them in the deep snow.

After all, the wood people have enough of the wizard and his magic, destroy his house and his possessions and chase him away in order to finally be able to lead a self-determined life.

On the rocky coast he collected gnarled roots and branches of spruce trees which he transformed into the main characters of a fairytale for his family.

Within four years the artist created a story with illustrations inspired by the indigenous people Haida and Tlingit in the Pacific Northwest.