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of Bayupki was situated. To this cave he took the child. The Owl 

 had little children in the cave that were living there nicely. 



When the mother of the child no longer heard the crying, she 

 came out of the house and looked for her child, but it was gone. 

 "Where has "that child gone now?" she said. "It seems somebody 

 came and got it," whereupon she went through the houses and 

 inquired everywhere, but no one had it. In the morning she again 

 went through the houses hunting her child, but could not find it. 

 "Where may that child be?" she said. So she was without children. 



Sometime after some men went after wood north of the village, 

 some of them passing the cave where the Owl lived. They heard 

 some one in a moaning voice sing the following song: 



Chavayo chavayo, 



Chavayo piva, chavayo piva, 



A hmhm, a hmhm. 



Looking up they saw a child in the cave, which had already feathers, 

 and the white spots of the Owl began to appear all over the body. 

 The eyes of the child also began to become yellow. "Oh!" the 

 men said, "whose child may that be?" One of the men then sug- 

 gested that it might be the child that had disappeared, so when they 

 returned to the village they said: "There in the cave of an owl, at 

 Bayupki, is a child. It already has feathers and spots all over, and 

 its eyes are already yellow. It is turning into an owl. Whose child 

 may that be?" "It must be the child of that woman," the people 

 said right away, so they told them about it. "Now, bestir yourself, 

 bestir yourself, because that child is turning into an owl." So they 

 hurried up and the mother and father and the men who had found 

 the child then proceeded to the place. 



When they arrived there the men who had found the child climbed 

 up to the cave. In the back part of the latter was the Owl and his 

 children. The little owl child was sitting alone. The men took it, 

 brought it down and handed it to its father. The mother also took 

 hold of it. The Owl did not come out, but said: "You take the 

 child with you, but when you get to your village you put the child 

 into a room, and keep it locked up there for four days. On the fourth 

 day when the sun rises you open the door and let the child come out. 

 It will then be a Hopi again. If you do not do that and open the 

 door before that, the child will remain an Owl and come back again. " 



So they took the child to the village, put it into a room, placed 

 some food in it and locked the door. The father watched in front 

 of the door, keeping watch there during the four days. He heard his 



