Are you an evil-minded person or a good minded-person? Or is it a little of both? In the piece The World on the Turtles Back there is a good relationship of both represented by twin brothers. The right-handed brother is "the one who did everything just as he should" whereas "the left-handed brother never did the right thing." These characteristic traits seem to be very definite to each brother, but maybe somewhere deep inside a different person is waiting to erupt and be released.
The good-minded right handed brother created the deer, ground squirrel, and porcupine. The left-handed evil brother formed animals that would hunt and kill the innocent animals his brother made like the mountain lion, weasel, and bear. Then when the brothers made trees and plants for the earth, berries and fruits were made by the good brother for his animals to eat. The evil brother produced briars, and poison ivy, and the poisonous plants like baneberry and dogberry, and the suicide root for people to kill themselves when they go out of their mind. Surprisingly though the left-handed brother made medicine for good and for evil, for doctoring and for witchcraft. Is this a sign of some good in the evil-minded left handed brother? .
When the brothers began to duel one another trying to vanquish the other, each knew that somewhere in his own mind was the secret of his own weak point. "They talked about this as they contested in these duels, day after day, and somehow the deep mind of each entered into the other. And the deep mind of the right-handed twin lied to his brother, and the deep mind of the left-handed twin told the truth." So when the next day came the brothers brought the thing that the other said was his weakness. The left-handed brother only brought a twig that was useless. The right-handed brother brought deer antlers that ripped up the other brother, and killed him. This is the evil coming out of the perfect twin, deep inside there was an evil lurking, however it did save his life.
