 Finally, Eglė herself turns into a spruce.According to Bernard Sergent, "human–animal marriage is an union that is too remote as incest is a too close one.Compared to a balanced marriage, between humans but from another clan or another village, that is to say–depending on the society–within the framework of a well measured endogamy or exogamy, incest transgresses the norm because it is an exaggerated endogamy, and animal marriage transgresses it because it is an exaggerated exogamy."