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After that he at once untied the bow and arrows and burden band. 

 He now took the burden band, the bow and arrows, and followed the 

 rabbit. The rabbit became tired and sat down. When the youth 

 found him he shot it. He then followed another one and killed it. 

 Thus he killed four. He now tied them up and carried them on his 

 back and then went home from there. When it was evening he came 

 to his mother carrying the rabbits, and she was truly happy. "Oh 

 my! Thanks that you have killed them, thanks, thanks," she said. 

 The grandfather now also said: "Thanks, thanks, why you have fixed 

 yourself up somewhere, and hence you are now a Hopi and have 

 carried these here to me. Thanks! Why now subsisting on your 

 account I shall live here." When he had thus spoken to him, after 

 that that one lived as a Hopi, and after that he always provided 

 something for his mother, and then subsisting on his account (by his 

 assistance) they lived there. 



47. THE CROW AS A SPIRIT OF EVIL.' 



A Crow was living on the high mesa southeast of Oraibi where the 

 sun shrines are located. He would be walking up and down on the 

 edge of the mesa watching the people as they were planting their corn 

 in the valley. "Thank you," he would say, "that you are planting 

 for me." Occasionally he would fly over and around the village of 

 Orafbi watching the people. He also would watch well who planted 

 his corn first, and when the corn began to have ears he would say : 

 "This field was planted first, so I am going to eat there," which he 

 did. The Hopi were very unhappy over it. This high Crow also 

 impersonated sickness. Wherever any body in the village was bad 

 he would, in some way or other, secretly and unobserved, influence 

 and charm him and he would get sick; some of them would even 

 die. Just how he did it the Hopi do not know. It was done in an 

 invisible way, just the same, the Hopi say, as he would eat their corn 

 after they had left their fields, and did not see him do it. The Crow, 

 or Sickness, would also despoil people in other ways, some into 

 whom he had breathed his bad influence would, for instance, begin 

 to steal. They would be very sorry over it afterwards, and say: 

 "What is it that makes me so bad, I did not use to do it before." 

 Good people, whose heart, however, was not very strong, would thus 

 be turned into bad people by the harmful charm of the Crow. They 

 say that in that condition they would ' ' kananapunangwa y^she," that 

 means, be sitting or living with a disobedient heart. But as the 



' Told by Qoydwaima (Oraibi) . 



