432 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 196 



The men started after the enemy immediately, and chased them all 

 night. The next day was rainy. The enemy had now gone as far as 

 this side of Indian Gap, and they thought that they were safe. They 

 went to sleep under some spruce trees. (The whole party had gotten 

 just one scalp.) 



But the Cherokees found them where they were sleeping and killed 

 them all, and when they returned home, they had a fine scalp dance. °^ 



4.— AN A:GH(I)SGn^ IS KILLED BY A BONE 



In olden times, when the Cherokees and the Ani:gh{i)sgi were at 

 war, before the White people came, or maybe a little after that time, 

 a Cherokee party went out against the enemy. In the forest they 

 made a fence fort by putting up felled trees all around them. They 

 had a doorway to go in and out, and a fire in the center. 



About nightfall they were eating deer which they had killed during 

 the day. They were eating the flesh off the bones. They heard the 

 cry of a flying squirrel: "Tsi:! Tsi:! Tsi:!" 



One of them said, "That is not a flying squirrel! It's an A:gh(i)sgi!" 

 and he threw the bone that he was gnawing over the stockade in the 

 direction from where the cry came. The sharp bone hit the A:gh(i)sgi 

 who was standing there right in the eye, and he fell back and died. 



All the other Ani:gh{i)sgi as soon as they saw this ran away as fast 

 as they could because they thought that there were some powerful 

 magicians in the party of Cherokees. 



If this A:gh{i)sgi had not been killed by the bone, all of the Chero- 

 kees would certainly have been killed because the Ani:gh(i)sgi could 

 have shot anyone coming out of the doorway, or showing his head 

 above the stockade. 



5.— A MAGICIAN DEFIES THE ANI:GH(I)SGI 



At the time of the war between the Ani:gh(i)sgi and the Cherokees 

 a person was not allowed to go out hunting alone; it was too dangerous, 

 for he might be killed by the Ani:gh{i)sgi. So hunters always went 

 out in parties of perhaps seven, eight, or nine men. 



One time a party went out to hunt in the wilderness. At night 

 they would build no fort, but had just a campfire upon which to cook 

 their meat. 



With them they had an old man to examine and find out if they 

 were going to Idll any deer, or if there were any enemies about. He 

 could examine for anything; he was a powerful magician. Before 



»2 Olbrechts' note: "Scalps were not allowed to be seen before dance[.] Everyone dances Individ. [ually] 

 and says what he can do, produces the scalp and dances; when he has finished he shouts— 'Hi+' and the 

 singers stop. M. [organ] still knows the songs[.]" 



M Singular of Ani:ghii)igi. 



