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Whereupon they showed her the bdhos. "Thanks," she said, "these 

 I want. Of course I shall give him to you, but let us first play a 

 game," whereupon she spread sand upon the floor. "Now, you play 

 first," she said. So the Hopi planted different kinds of seed in the 

 sand and thrust the bahos into the sand around the border, where- 

 upon the things planted grew up quickly. "Thanks," she said, 

 "you certainly know something. These I want and you shall cer- 

 tainly take him along. But we shall race first, we shall follow the 

 sun." So she and the young man that had procured the baho 

 arranged for a race. The young man mounted an eagle breath 

 feather, the mdna turning into a Tokchii (a swift snake, similar to 

 the racer). They started together, but by and by the mana got 

 ahead of the young man. They circled around the sun, started back, 

 the maiden still being in the lead. Spider Woman fhen took a reed, 

 pointed it towards the racers, and by a strong inhalation drew the 

 young man forward, increasing his speed so that he arrived at the 

 house first, thus having beaten the mana in the race. The mana 

 then said, "You take him along, you have beaten me." Where- 

 upon she drew him forth from another room. He was nearly dead. 

 In the inner room were many bones of young men who had perished 

 there. The Antelope Maiden had been angry because no bahos had 

 been made for her for a long time, and hence she had killed so many 

 young men. But since these people now revived her bahos, she was 

 reconciled, and after that killed no more people, and the Zunis were 

 freed from this danger. 



26. THE POOKONGS AND THE BALOlOOKONG.' 



Aliksai! In Mishdngnovi where now are the ruins, the people 

 lived, and there lived a family consisting of a father, mother, a youth, 

 and a maiden. One day at noon the latter went after water to Toriva. 

 There "was a great deal of water in the spring at that time. As she 

 was dipping out the water it began to move and a Bdlolookbng came 

 out. He at once began to draw the maiden with strong inhalations 

 towards him, embraced her, and disappeared with her into the water. 

 Her mother was waiting for her to return, but she did not come. 

 When she did not return the mother began to worry and said 

 she would go and look for her. Following her tracks and not meeting 

 her on the way, she went down to the spring. There she hunted for 

 her tracks but only found them descending to the water. The jug 

 was standing there, but the daughter could not be found, so she 



» Told by Sikihpiki (Shupalilavi). 



