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room. "Why do you want me so quickly?" he asked. "Yes," the 

 old warrior said, "This young man needs you," and after telling him 

 the story, asked whether he would assist them. The Hawk also 

 promised to go with them. "Wait a little," the old warrior said for 

 the third time, "I shall call some one else." Whereupon he spit 

 into his left hand, whistled again, and then a great many skeleton 

 flies (mdstotovi) came and drank his spittle, whereupon he closed 

 the hand upon them. Then they all departed, going to the place of 

 the assembled sorcerers, which resembled a Hopi kiva. They at 

 once entered the kiva without being noticed, however, by the sorcer- 

 ers. These were just busy resuscitating the maiden. They had 

 taken off the wrappings from the body, had covered the body with 

 a native cloth (mochapu), and were singing a song. 



The wheel containing the breath of the m^na, and with which 

 they had been playing, the sorcerers had brought with them. One 

 of the oldest of the sorcerers took out the breath that had been 

 wrapped up in the wheel, put it back into the body again, whereupon 

 the mana revived. Her first expression was, "Aha," whereupon she 

 threw aside the cover and said, "It is hot here, I am very hot." 

 "Undoubtedly you are," the old man said to her. She then looked 

 around and when she saw that she was among the sorcerers she began 

 to cry bitterly. All present had by this time reassumed their forms 

 as Hopi again. An old woman then washed the face of the maiden, 

 rubbed corn meal on it, combed her hair and tied it up in whorls and 

 dressed her up nicely. In the meanwhile a bed had been prepared 

 for her and she was told to retire and lie down on the bed.' She 

 was" still crying bitterly. When she had seated herself on the couch 

 the old man approached her, but just then the old warrior liberated 

 one of the skeleton flies and immediately the humming of the fly 

 orre.sted the attention of some of those present. They said: "Listen, 

 somebody is in the kiva. " Some at once noticed the large fly, others 

 said they could not see anything. The old man, who was then sitting 

 by the side of the mana, looked up and also saw the fly. At this 

 moment the Hawk rushed into the kiva, threw aside the old man, 

 grabbed the mana, swung her on his back and carried her out of the 

 kiva. "Hihih'ya," the old man exclaimed, as he recovered from his 

 astonishment. "What is it?" others asked. "Why the maiden is 

 gone," he said. At this juncture the brother of the maiden spoke 

 up, saying: "Why nothing is the matter," and now those present in 

 the kiva for the first time noticed the presence of their enemies. 



' She was also told that as she had persistently refused to marry one of the young men of the 

 village, all the men present would cohabit with her, which was to be her punishment. 



