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face." He might also see that his hair appears very greasy and oily. He 

 also dreams of other things. He may dream of having the body secretions of 

 his spouse, i.e., her saliva, urine, feces, or nasal mucus, on his own body." 

 If these dreams cease, he may be all right again. On the other hand, he may 

 even dream that his spouse urinates on his body." When a man has such 

 dreams, he loses his appetite, and cannot keep the food down in his stomach. 

 This condition is called suka :t lyidhi :k (=nausea). When he eats, he thinks 

 of these dreams, and of these various secretions on his body. That is what 

 makes him vomit. He is nauseated. In the ahwe : sickness, the person sees in 

 his dreaniis only a person of mixed blood, and the power of the mixed blood.'^ 

 [Does the dreamer also see his own sperm in dreams?] No, he doesn't." 



The ahwe : hahnok case material will be found on pages 142-144. 



ahwe: nyevedhi: 



The ahwe: nyevedhi: disease greatly resembles the ahwe: hahnok 

 disease and may be a more or less aggravated "not straight" form 

 thereof. 



Hilyera Anyay^s statement {1938). — I will now explain to you the difference 

 between the foreign disease (ahwe: hahnok) and the foreign ghost disease 

 (ahwe : nyevedhi). 



In the latter illness, a patient has dreams in which he mingles (consorts) with 

 his dead relatives. He eats, plays, and talks with them. [Does this mean that 

 this illness resembles hiwey lak nyevedhi : ?] Yes. When these dreams continue, 

 the patient seems to lose all interest in the activities of earthly life, because 

 his heart and his mind are always with his dead relatives." When he awakens 

 from some such bad dreams, he sometimes sits for a long time without eating 

 or talking, and sometimes he cries, remembering his dead relatives. A patient 

 who has such bad dreams is advised to take young arrowweed tops and to 

 fumigate himself with them, or to steep arrowweed roots in water and bathe 

 in this, or to do both.^ If the patient is snma : tc ahot (has good, or power- 

 giving dreams) his bad dreams will then cease, and he will be all right once 

 more. In other instances the patient is advised to take some tasi : lyk weed, 

 soak it in warm water until it lathers, and then bathe in this water without 

 disrobing. Then he must go down to the water (i. e., river) and bathe there. 

 When he is ready to come out, he leaves his clothes in the river and is careful 

 not to emerge from the water at the same place where he had entered it. 



" When kissing, the partner's saliva may cause venereal disease (Kroeber, 1948). 



'< Compare the witch killer's dreams about blood (pt. 2, pp. 45-40), and the belief that 

 evil creatures were born of Slcy rattlesnalfe's body foam (Kroeber, 1925 a). 



*" Femlnae venerea voluptate commotae nonnumquam super virum mingunt (Devereux, 

 1950 a). Muller etiam temulenta, cum invenes nequam crinem pubis incendlssent, Incen- 

 dium emissa urina exstinxit (Devereux, 1948 1). Mohavia mulier cum per venerem varle 

 excitatur, sphincteres quos habet nonnumquam patefierl slnlt : vel e vagina murmures 

 emlttit (Devereux, 1950 a) vel inflatlonem ructusque dat (Devereux. 1951 e) vel super 

 mentulam in anum Immissam cacat (Devereux, 1951 e) vel, dum fellat, salivam semlne 

 intermixtam ab ore el)ulllt (Devereux, 1947 a). 



»• Presumably the informant mentions here only mixed blood because most racially 

 exogamous marriages nowadays involve Mohave halfbreeds rather than fulUjlood aliens. 



^ Witches are similarly obsessed with dreams and thoughts about their dead victims, 

 who are frequently close relatives (Devereux, 19;?7 c). By contrast, scalpers and witch 

 killers have unpleasant dreams about their victims (pt. 2, pp. 4-3— 46). 



« Bathing and/or fumigation rites are. In one form or another, also part of childbirth, 

 menstruation, and funeral observances (Devereux, 1942 a, 1949 d, 1950 g). 



