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times they even Lad to restrain her by wrapping her into a blanket. During 

 these attacks she would talk about her dead relatives, but especially about her 

 parents, describing their deaths, and urging people to mourn with her. At one 

 time she also said something about her dead son (?) Cii:p (Case 37) and 

 grabbed her husband, Uta : c of the Mah gens, asserting that he was her son. 



I (Tcate) did not visit her during her last illness, although she was my 

 contemporary, having been born just one night before I myself was born. During 

 her last illness they had put her in the hospital, but, when death seemed immi- 

 nent, they took her home again, since the Mohave like to die at home. 



Mrs. Uta :c herself claimed that she had been bewitched by Hikye :t. As a 

 result, her husband called on Hikye :t, asking him to treat her, in the hope that 

 his better nature (hi : wantc kinyai :m=heart says) would induce him to cure her, 

 if he were asked to do so. Hikye :t accepted the assignment and treated her for 

 two nights, but finally gave up the case as hopeless. Uta :c then asked Kapel 

 Tcukye:va to treat his wife. He, too, failed to cure her, however. At present, 

 all of Mrs. Uta :c's relatives have a personal grudge against Hikye :t. 



In conclusion, Tcatc remarked teasiugly : "Maybe you too will be like that, but 

 I hope not." This remark referred to the fact that I was at that time believed 

 to be hi: wa itck (heartbroken), due to disappointment in love. This jocular 

 remark may suggest a slight nexus between ahwe : nyevedhi : and the relatively 

 mild and somewhat humorously viewed ailment called hi : wa itck (pt. 8, pp. 

 91-106). 



Comment 



Mohave diagnosis. — Ahwe: nyevedhi: (?) complicated by witchcraft. 



Tentative diaynosis. — Senile dementia. (Highly uncertain.) The similarity 

 between Cii :p's and Mrs. Uta :c's symptoms is quite striking. Also noteworthy 

 is her insistence that others help her mourn her dead relatives,^* and her 

 mistaking her husband for her dead son. 



CASE 39 (Informant not recorded, perhaps Pulyi : k.) : 



Tcatc (not to be confused with the informant of that name) suffered from 

 ahwe : nyevedhi :, (No other data were obtainable. ) 



THE HIWEY LAK GROUP 



An important group of psychiatric or, more specifically, psycho- 

 somatic conditions is known by the name of "hiwey lak" (anus pain). 

 Many Mohave informants tend to view hiwey lak primarily as a kind 

 of venereal disease, even though every Mohave who had the character- 

 istic symptoms of gonorrhea or spyhilis was diagnosed as having 

 hiku :pk. 



Broadly speaking, there are two types of hiwey lak diseases : 



(1) Hiwey lak proper, which rates as a "straight disease" 



(2) Hiwey lak nyevedhi: (anus pain ghostly), which is a "not straight" 

 disease and is closely related to ahwe: nyevedhi: (pt. 4, pp. 128-150). 



^ Compare the insistence of tiansvestltes, who profess to have given birth to a stillborn 

 baby, that their "husbands" should also mourn for this "fecal baby" (Devereux, 1937 b). 



