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dants, and many nice beads; his head was nicely washed, and on his 

 face he had two black lines painted with yalahai, two lines running 

 from the upper part of the nose to the cheeks. The young man who 

 had now been exposed then said: "Take these bdhos and thrust them 

 into the ground, one at the plaza, and the others in the different cor- 

 ners of a house," which he designated. He furthermore told them 

 that for four days they should have a feast, and having said this he 

 left the kiva and went to his home. The people thought about it a 

 great deal and were unhappy. They did not know what it meant, 

 and whether or not some evil was planned for them, but they killed 

 their sheep and prepared a feast and ate and feasted for four days. 

 During the third day, they especially prepared much food, and were 

 feasting all day and all night ; still many of them were looking for and 

 expecting some evil to befall them the next day, but the sun rose 

 higher and higher and nothing happened to them, and when evening 

 came they felt very much relieved, saying: "Nothing has happened 

 to us," and they became happy again. Thus three years passed 

 without any especial evil happenings, but in the fourth year some- 

 thing happened. The young man when telling the people that they 

 should feast for four days, had not told them right. 



The people had been right in their suspicions that something evil 

 might befall them after their four days of feasting, but instead of it 

 happening after the four days, the plan of the ghost had been that 

 it should happen at the end of four years, which, however, he had 

 not told them. In the fourth year the expected evil came upon them. 

 The old man, who had four years before complained to the village 

 chief of the bad conduct of the young men of the village, was still 

 living. He was still angry, and in the fourth year he prepared many 

 b^hos of hard wood : tuv^vi, m6puovi, t^ve, kwingvi. He made the 

 points of the bahos very sharp and made very many of them. In 

 the fall of the fourth year when they had gathered in their crop, the 

 village chief said to the crier chief, who was also bad and in league 

 with the village chief: "Our time has now come. You cry out 

 that the people again should feast four days." So the Crier Chief 

 announced saying: "You that live here, thus I am informing you, all 

 that have something living, kill the same and eat it for four days. 

 All that have something good, eat it and have a feast." But the 

 people were full of mistrust. They were afraid that at the expira- 

 tion of the four days some evil would befall them, and they did 

 not comply with the requests of the chiefs; they did not prepare a 

 feast. 



During the night following the announcement the chiefs met with 



