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we shall return to your house." So he went there and quenched his 

 thirst and then they returned to the house of his parents. These were 

 now very happy when they saw the child. The Fly then said to the 

 parents: "The shirt and beads of your boy are at the maiden's house. 

 Let him go over there and then see what she says, whether she will 

 be glad or not, and then let him ask for his shirt and beads, and when 

 she gives him the shirt let him shake it at her, and then when he gets 

 the beads he must shake them, too." 



The mother then said to her son: "All right, you go over to the 

 mana's house." But the Fly continued: "She will probably spread 

 food before you, she will ofifer you piki rolls, but do not eat them." 

 So he went over there. When the mana saw him she exclaimed: 

 "Ih (with a rising inflection), Have you come?" "Yes," he said, "I 

 have come." "Sit down," she said to him, and at once went into 

 another room and got some food, which she placed before him. "I 

 am not hungry ; I have come for my shirt and my beads. I think you 

 brought them with you when you came." "Yes, I have them here, 

 and of course I shall give them to you." She hereupon went into a 

 room and when she opened the door the young man looked in and 

 saw that she was very wealthy. She had a great many things there 

 that she had taken from the youths whom she had killed. When she 

 brought out his things he took them and shook them at her and said : 

 "Yes, these are mine, these are the ones." Hereupon he left the 

 house, but the Fly had in the meanwhile told his parents that they 

 should go over to the mana's house also and meet their son there, so 

 they met in front of the house and waited there. While they were 

 standing there they heard a noise in the house, some clapping and 

 shaking. When the young man had shaken his shirt and the beads 

 at the m^na, an evil charm had entered her and she was changed into 

 "Tihkuy Wuhti" ' (child protruding woman). She entered an inner 

 room and came out dressed in a white 6wa. Her hair was now tied 

 up like that of a married woman, but her face and clothes were all 

 bloody. While she had put on this costume the noise and rattle in 

 the room where the costumes of the slain youths were had continued, 

 and these costumes, which it seems consisted mostly of buckskins, 

 rabbit skins, etc., had assumed the shape of deer, antelope and rabbits, 

 and these now dashed out of the room and left the house. The mana 

 tried to keep them and was angry, but could not stop them. She 

 grabbed the last one, however, and wiping her hand over her genitalia 



' This personage occurs in various Hopi tales. Some say that in a migrating party a woman 

 was about to be confined. But as she was in labor a long time, she asked to be left behind. Her 

 request was granted, the child being only partly bom, from which fact she received her name. 

 Comp "The Oraibi Snake Ceremony," by H. R Voth, page 3<s. 



