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here. I will go to the rear." So he went to Spider Woman's house 

 and she asked: "Well, did you get the mana?" "Yes," he said. 

 "Well, you take everything along." But she forbid him to touch 

 his wife while they would be on the way, as then his beads would 

 disappear and also his wife. 



So they started. The beads were as yet not heavy. During the 

 night they slept separately. In the morning they found that the 

 beads had increased, and they kept increasing as they went along 

 the next day. The next night they spent in the same way. They 

 were anxious to see whether the bead's and shells had increased, but 

 did not dare to do so. The third night was again spent, and the con- 

 tents of the bag increased the same as the previous two nights. The 

 bag with the beads and shells now became very heavy and the young 

 man was very anxious to see them, but his wife forbade him to open 

 the sack. The fourth night was spent in the same manner, and when 

 they arose in the morning the sack was nearly full and was very 

 heavy. Spider Woman had also put some strings into the bag with 

 the beads, and the beads were strung onto these strings as they kept 

 increasing. 



They now approached the home of the young man, and the latter 

 was very anxious to get home in order to see the contents of the sack, 

 so they traveled on.' When they had nearly one more day's travel 

 to make the sack had become full. During the last night the man 

 opened the sack, although his wife remonstrated most energetically. 

 He took out many of the finest beads and shells and spread them on 

 the floor before them, put them around his neck, and was very happy. 

 So they retired for the night. In the morning they found that all 

 the beads except those which Huriiing Wuhti had given to the man 

 had disappeared. Hence the Hopi have so few beads at the present 

 day. If that man had at that time brought home with him all the 

 beads which he had, they would have many. So when they arrived 

 at home they were very despondent. 



At that time only the Divided or Separated Spring (Batki) clan 

 and the P6na (a certain cactus) clan lived at that place, but with the 

 arrival of this young couple a new clan, the Snake clan, had come to 

 the village. Soon this new woman bore many children. They were 

 snakes, who lived in the fields and in the sand. They grew very 

 rapidly and went about and played with the Hopi children, whom 

 they sometimes bit. This made the Hopi very angry, and they said: 

 "This is not good," and drove them off, so they were very unhappy. 



' The woman was pregnant — -"quickly, like snakes." The man wanted to cohabit with her 

 but she forbade him. 



