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edge of corn-field, but cannot find him. She takes mirror from bosom and 

 sees opening of Spider's hole reflected. She tells youth to come out, and he 

 does so very dejected. Mdna goes to hide fourth time. She crosses water- 

 melon patch, goes into ditch, and turns into tadpole. Youth hunts for her 

 and being tired, drinks from ditch, but cannot find her, and tells her to come 

 out. Mdna emerges from water and tells him she saw him drink. Youth 

 again goes to hide, and Spider Woman tells him to go to his uncle Ahfl who 

 lives in temporary shelter. He goes, and Ahfl pulls out loose knot from corner 

 pole, into which he puts youth, closing up opening. Mana hunts for him, and 

 reaches shelter, but cannot find him. She wets tips of fingers, and presses 

 point .of forefinger into right ear. She hears youth in hiding-place, and tells 

 him to come out. They go to their place again, but then they return to shelter. 

 Mana digs hole close to corner post, and saying she has beaten him, she tells 

 youth to take off his shirt and his beads. Then she grabs him by hair, bends 

 him over hole, and cuts his throat with knife, letting blood run into hole. She 

 closes hole, digs another to north, and dragging body, buries it in grave. She 

 takes shirt and beads with her home. Parents of young man inquire of maiden 

 if she knows where he is. She says she does not, as he drove her away. 

 Parents have killed sheep, but eat little, and flies come to meat. Woman drives 

 flies off. Fly objects, and says she will go and hunt child when she has sucked 

 meat. Woman tells Fly where boy went, and Fly goes to field. She discovers' 

 traces of blood, and opens hole. She finds grave, and sucking all blood from 

 first opening, ejects it into body. Heart begins to beat, and soon youth rises 

 up. He complains of thirst, and Fly tells him to go to ditch and drink. After- 

 wards they return to house of parents. Fly tells them that maiden has youth's 

 shirt and beads, and that he is to go for them, and when she gives him shirt he 

 is to shake it at her, and so also with beads. Fly tells youth not to eat piki 

 rolls maiden will offer him. He goes, and mana brings food which he declines. 

 She gives him shirt and beads, and he shakes them at her. Fly tells parents to 

 go to mana's house. They hear noise in house. Maiden is changed into Child- 

 Protruding Woman and dresses in white owa and has hair tied, but face and 

 clothes are bloody. Noise continues, and deer, antelope, and rabbits, which 

 are costumes of slain youths, dash out. Mdna tries to stop them, and grabs 

 last one. She wipes hands over her person and rubs it over face of antelope, 

 etc. She tells people that they will now have difficulty in hunting animals, 

 and disappears with game. Ever since she has lived at Little Colorado River. 

 She controls game and hunters make prayer-offerings to her. 



38. — The Maiden Who Stole the Youth's Costume. 



Youth wants to practice running and grandmother dresses him up. She 

 tells him that on returning to village he is not to pass house of dangerous 

 maiden. Next day he again runs, and when he ascends to village, maiden is 

 standing on kiva. She says he is beautifully dressed up and asks him to let 

 her dress in costume and dance for him. He lays off costume and hands it to 

 her. She dresses tip, dances and sings. At last words she jumps into kiva 

 through opening, closing it quickly, and tells him to go. Youth goes home 

 and grandmother is angry, but she says maiden is hungry for meat and he 

 must go and hunt. After eating he goes hunting and kills rabbit. Grand- 

 mother tells him to take rabbit and offer it to maiden if she will dance for 

 him again. He is then to cover opening with trap door quickly, so that she 



