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soon as you get through dancing I shall give it to you." So she came 

 out and performed her dance at the edge of the kiva opening, appar- 

 ently ready to slip in again when she would be through. She sang 

 the same song that she had been singing before. As she sang the last 

 word the youth threw the game towards her, but quite a distance from 

 the kiva, as he had been instructed by his grandmother. The mana 

 rushed for the game, and while she did so the youth closed the opening. 

 The mana was very quick, but when she saw that she had been de- 

 feated she laid oflf the entire costume, one piece after the other, saying, 

 "Here is your costume." The youth picked it up and went to his 

 grandmother's house, who was very happy. "Thanks," she said, 

 "that you were not too late, and that you were successful." Here- 

 after he had his costume again. "Thanks, thanks," the grandmother 

 said, one time after another. "Do not go that way again, that mana 

 is dangerous. She always takes away the things from the youths of 

 the village. I told you so, but you would not believe me. Now since 

 she has given your costume back to us, do not go again." 



39. THE TWO PUEBLO MAIDENS WHO WERE MARRIED TO THE 



NIGHT.' 



Haliksai! In Kawaihkaa, a Pueblo village in New Mexico, the 

 people were living. North of the plaza, at the house where there was 

 a long ladder, lived two maidens. They were sisters, and persistently 

 refused to marry any of the young men in the village. Finally the 

 Night (Tokila) concluded to try to marry the two maidens, and came 

 to the house. He came there in the evening and asked them to marry 

 him. They said they would lay the matter before their parents, and 

 if they were willing they would marry him. The parents were will- 

 ing, and so the two sisters waited for their suitor. The next evening 

 he came to fetch his two brides. 



Leaving the village they went through a narrow passage. Outside 

 of the village they found a large tray (pota), which the Night had 

 left there. "This we shall enter," he said. So they all took a place 

 on the tray, whereupon they were lifted up and carried through the 

 air to Kawaihka NuwatoKaovi, where they entered a deep canyon or 

 gulch. Here the Night lived. When they came into the house they 

 saw in an inner room a great many human bones. They were the 

 remains of many women whom the Night had stolen in the village, 

 and with whom he had lived a while and then, as soon as they became 

 pregnant, had thrown them into the room to perish. A number of 



' Told by L<jmdn6mtiwa (Oraibi). 



