No!^80r' ^^^' EASTERN CHEROKEE FOLKTALES — ^KILPATRICK 417 



When he arrived at the location that the old man had selected, the 

 young man saw an Ugh(a)dhe:na. He shot it, and brought back its 

 meat. 



In the fall the hummingbirds disappear. The old man said that 

 he wanted hummingbirds. 



The young man went out, but instead of a hummingbird, he shot 

 a waghv.'dha.^^ He took the feathers from its breast and made 

 hummingbirds of them. He brought them home, and from them and 

 hominy was made bird soup. 



As soon as the old man began eating, his stomach swelled up; but 

 stUl he kept on eating, and his stomach kept swelling and swelling 

 until it burst. 



No food came out of it — only feathers of the waghv:dha. 



3.— A WOMAN IS KILLED BY A MAGIC ARROVv^HEAD * 



In olden times, when they still used to have dances regularly at 

 the townhouse (ga : dhiyo : hi) ,^^ there was a woman who always wore 

 the terrapin shells upon her legs. (She was the leading dancer.) 



There was another woman who was very desirous of dancing with 

 the terrapin shells upon her legs, but the first woman would never 

 let her wear them. 



One night when there was a dance, the woman who always wore 

 the terrapin shells was late in arriving, and when she came to the 

 dance, the other woman, her rival, was already dancing with the 

 terrapin shells upon her legs. She kept the terrapin shells on all 

 night. The first woman became very jealous. 



At the next dance, exactly the same thing happened. The woman 

 became even more jealous. 



When there was to be a dance again, the jealous woman did not 

 even go to it. Her parents called in a very old man who was a very 

 powerful wizard. This man brought with him a piece of buckskin, 

 and also a smaU gourd rattle. They all waited untU they thought 

 that the woman against whom they intended to "work" ^° had put 

 on the terrapin shells. It was now very dark. 



The conjurer took from the piece of buckskin seven black arrow- 

 heads, and also the ulv:sadv,^^ the transparent stone, and in a corner 

 of the hearth he made a small heap of warm ashes. This ash heap he 

 smoothed with his hands and put the ulv:sadv stone upright in the 

 center of it. Around the stone he laid in a circle the seven arrow- 

 heads, with their points toward the outside. 



" Fox sparrow (Passerella iliaca iliaca). 

 " One of the several forms of the word for townhouse. 



80 The act of engaging in a magical activity Is almost Invariably referred to by the circumlocution "work" 

 (verb stem -b>:sda-). 

 « 'Shone through, it.' This Is a quartz crystal used for divining (Mooney, 1900, pp. 297-298, 458-461) 



