428 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 196 



3.— THE FAT BEAR 



Three men went out to hunt. They shot and wounded a bear. 

 The bear got away, but they followed its bloody trail. 



Along the way they found a piece of fat meat from the side of the 

 bear. They picked it up and went on. They kept finding pieces of 

 fat until they had so much [a heap 20 cm. in diameter]. 



Finally they said, "Let the bear go. We have enough fat." 



4.— A RIDE ON A BUCK 



This happened to a man named Idigv:ne:hi,^^ who died about 

 25 years ago.^^ He was a very successful hunter. 



One day he went hunting. Lead and powder were very scarce in 

 those days. Idigv:ne:hih.Sid just one huUet. He saw a big buck and 

 shot it, and it rolled down from the hill to where Idigv:ne:hi stood. 

 It had huge antlers. 



When it arrived where the man stood, the buck revived. Idigv:- 

 ne:hi wanted to kill it with his hunting knife, and he got astride the 

 buck. It jumped up and ran away with the man, who held onto it with 

 both hands. The buck carried him a long distance, and then circled 

 back to where Idigv:ne:hi's gun was lying. The man managed to 

 snatch up his gun as the buck ran past it, but the man could not do 

 anything with it since he had to hold onto the buck's antlers. 



Then the buck became exhausted and fell. The man then killed it. 



5.— A HUNTER SHOOTS OVER A MOUNTAIN 



A deer hunter went out to hunt. On top of the mountain he saw 

 a herd of deer among which there was one very large animal, but, as he 

 was getting ready to shoot, the herd went back over the top and on to 

 the other side. 



There was a tree standing on top of the mountain, and the hunter 

 thought, "Maybe if I hit the branch of that tree, the bullet will rico- 

 chet down to where that big deer is." 



He shot, and everything happened exactly as he had thought that 

 it would. *^ 



Footnote 79 — Continued 



"No cases are known where other animals— deer, turkey, rabbit, etc.— coming back to life after having 

 been killed. 



"A pretty similar variant of the same story is told by WW. [Will West Long], but is probably influenced 

 by the above, told by his brother." 



80 'Maker of them to do.' 



" Ca. 1902. 



8' The Cherokee greatly relish tall tales of hunting, especially those with a humorous twist (see Kilpatrick 

 and Kllpatrick, 1964, pp. 101-104). Olbrechts comments upon this tale as follows: "M. [organ] knows an- 

 other expedient in similar case: the man held his gun \vlth both arms over his head and managed in'that way 

 to shoot over the mountain and hit his mark." 



