4 King, Folk-lore of the North Americntt, Indians. 



made nothing but monkeys, such good painters are ihey ; this remedy 

 succeeded no better than the first. The poor girl lay down upon this sheet 

 without resting, and without recovering. What cannot the natural affection 

 of fathers and mothers do for their cliildren? These good people sought 

 everywhere the health of their daughter, except in Him who could have 

 granted it. They consulted a famous Sorceress, that is, a famous jester. 

 This woman said she had learned, — whether from Manitou or some one else, 

 I cannot say, —that they would have to kill a dog and that the men should 

 make a feast of it. Futhermore, that they would have to make a beautiful 

 robe of Deer skin, trim it with their red matachias made of Porcupine quills, 

 and give it to the patient ; and that she would thus recover. 



While they were preparing this feast, a Savage dreamed that for the 

 recovery of this girl, they would have to prepare a banquet of twenty head 

 of Elk. Now the girl's parents were placed in great anxiety, for, as there 

 was but little snow, they could not pursue and much less capture the Elk. 

 In this great difficulty, they consulted the Interpreters of dreams ; it was 

 decided that they mu^t change the twenty head of Moose to twenty big 

 loaves of breid, such as they buy from our French, and that this would 

 have the same effect. They were not mistaken, inasmuch as this bread and 

 this dog feast did nothing but fill the stomachs of the .Savages ; and this is 

 all the twenty Moose he ids could have done, for to cure the sick, neither 

 banquets nor beautiful rolies avail, (viii., 261.) 



As an illustration of this principle of make believe 

 we may instance the Roman cervaria avis when a sheep 

 took the place of a deer which was not forthcoming. 



It is the duty of the Sorcerers (also called Autmoins, 

 Pilotoys, Soothsayers, and other names) to interpret 

 dreams (xii., 9). It is recognised that all dreams are not 

 true, but it is not easy to say how a distinction between 

 true and false is made. A person of no importance, at 

 any rate, is not likely to have a dream of any consequence, 

 (x., 171). 



Miss Kingsley ( y'r«z'^/.y z;z West Africa) S2iys that in 

 West Africa dreams are not of so much importance. In 

 Melanesia however they are of importance. A man is ill : 

 he calls in a professional dreamer, who takes his tobacco 

 and goes to sleep. In sleep his soul goes off to the place 

 where the sick man has been working, meets a ghost 

 there and learns its name. The ghost tells him that the 



