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immediately she heard the youth in his hiding place and told him to 

 come out, as she had found him. 



They then returned to their place again, but the mdna said: 

 " Let us now return again to the shelter where I found you." So they 

 returned and sat down close to the shelter on the north side. The 

 mana hereupon dug a hole close to one of the comer posts and then 

 said to the youth: "I- have beaten you, I have beaten you. You take 

 off your shirt." He did so. It was a blue shirt such as the Hopi used 

 to wear. "Now take off your beads," she said, and, not knowing 

 what she intended to do, he did so. She hereupon grabbed him by 

 the hair, jerked out a knife from behind her belt, bent him over the 

 hole that she had made, and cut his throat, letting the blood run into 

 the hole.' She then closed up this hole, dug another one somewhat to 

 the north and dragged the body to it, burying it in this grave. 



Hereupon she took the shirt and the beads with her and went 

 home. When the young man did not return to his home his parents 

 became worried and inquired at the maiden's house. "We thought 

 you both had gone to our field to watch," they said. "Do you not 

 know where Kwavfihii is?" "Yes," she said, "we were there to- 

 gether, but he drove me away, and I do not know where he is." So 

 the parents were very sad. They had killed a sheep shortly before, 

 but as they were so sorry they ate very little of the meat, and so the 

 flies came in and ate of the meat. One time the woman was driving 

 the flies off with a broom and one of them said : ' ' Why do you drive 

 me away when I eat your meat ? I suck some of this meat and then 

 I shall go and hunt your child." Hereupon the woman desisted and 

 the flies then sucked of the meat. "Yes," the woman then sai(" to 

 the fly, "our boy went to watch the fields and he never came back. 

 If you can, you go and hunt him and find him for me." So the Fly 

 flew away to the corn-field and found very many tracks. Following 

 them all over the field, she finally tracked them to the shelter where 

 the young man had been killed. Flying around here she soon dis- 

 covered traces of the blood, and opening the hole she found blood 

 in it. She sucked some of this blood and went a little farther north 

 and there found the grave. She then sucked up all the blood from 

 the first opening and injected it into the body and then waited. Soon 

 the heart of the youth began to beat and after a little while he raised 

 up, shaking his head slightly. "Have you woke up?" the Fly said. 

 ' 'Yes," he answered, "but I am very thirsty." "There is some water 

 over there in the ditch," the Fly said, "go there and drink and then 



' I have found other evidences in the Hopi traditions that point to the probability that 

 human sacrifices existed among the ancestors of the Hopi. 



