March, 1905. The Traditions of the Hopi ■ — Voth. 209 



made some hunishuki. As he was done with that his friend 

 came. 



"My friend , ' ' the Coyote said . "Ha!" the B adger replied . * * Are 

 you in?" the Coyote asked. "Yes," he said, "come in, come in." 

 So the Coyote went in and they commenced to eat right away. When 

 they were through eating the Coyote asked the Badger: "What have 

 you here that tasted so good?" "Yes," said the Badger, who had 

 a knife in his hand. "I did not know what to set before you, and 

 so I cut open my abdomen, took my entrails out and roasted them 

 for you, and before I was through, my abdomen was closed up again. " 

 The Coyote would not believe him. "Certainly you did not roast 

 that, yet you are saying it," the Coyote said. "Yes," the Badger 

 replied, "I roasted that. You see my abdomen is not quite well 

 yet,"" whereupon he showed it to him, having made a little scratch 

 on it beforehand. And then the Coyote believed him. "I am go- 

 ing to do that, too," the Coyote said. "You come and visit me to- 

 morrow morning. But I have no knife and roasting pot; you have 

 a knife and a pot, let me have them. " "Very well," the Badger said, 

 "you take them along." He gave him the knife and the pot, and 

 then the Coyote left the kiva and ran home. After he had left the 

 Badger said: "Get out, old man, you will certainly die, believing me 

 that way. " 



When the Coyote got home he went to sleep. In the morning 

 he put the pot on the fire and then leaned against the wall. He took 

 the knife and opened his abdomen a little, but it hurt him, and he 

 turned away. "Oh my! I shall not die," he thought, and then made 

 a larger cut. He then laid down the knife and took hold of the edge 

 with his four paws and tore a big opening in his abdomen, whereupon 

 the entrails dropped out. He moaned very much when he opened 

 his abdomen, saying " And-na-na-na-na-na-. " He then took hold 

 of one of the larger intestines and thereupon fell over and died. 



When the Badger came over he looked in and said, "Friend 

 (Kwach)," but receiving no answer he entered. He found that his 

 friend was dead. He said: "Of course, you died here, being de- 

 ceived that way. Of course, I did not really open my abdomen. 

 You have been deceived." Hereupon he took the fat from the 

 Coyote, and returned to his house. Close to his house was an ant 

 hill. He spread this fat over the ant hill, whereupon the ants moved 

 away, and that is the reason why the ants do not remain when coyote 

 fat is placed where they are, and that is also the reason why coyote 

 fat is used for ant bites. 



