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although (because?) they thought that he was dying." He was out of his head 

 and fought everyone who came near him. This lodestone drives you crazy and 

 also deforms you. When he got a little better they took him out, although he 

 still complained of pain in his hip. He got over it eventually, but his whole hip 

 sticks out now and his knees are drawn up. He is deformed. He must have 

 had a way with the ladies, for when his wife Po :ta left him because of his 

 deformity, he married Mu :th, a nice young girl just out of Riverside Indian 

 School, and had a baby by her. When Mu :th also left him, he married another 

 young girl, Nyortc, who had had a baby of uncertain paternity, which had died. 

 When Hulymdnyo :va and Nyortc also separated, he went back to Mu :th — per- 

 haps because they had had a baby. These lodestones are insanely jealous. Had 

 Hulymanyo :va observed the taboos, and had he not married, he would have been 

 all right. 



Tentative diagnosis: Delirium, due perhaps to an inflammatory disease of the 

 joints. 



CASE 55 (Informant not recorded; probably Tcatc) : 



Hulymanyo :va's first wife, Po :ta is also believed to have a lodestone. Maybe 

 that is why men kill themselves over her. (Po:ta caused two men to commit 

 suicide. (See Cases 119 and 120.) Maybe she got it while she was working at 

 Fort. Mohave. That must have been 20 years ago. She is crippled and has funny 

 noises in her ears (tinnitus?). She is just about deaf with them. Yet, men still 

 love her. She lives at present with Kutenyam Lyivec, a 40-year-old Yuma 

 Indian. Her first husband, Hulymanyo :va, is now about 31 or 32 years old 

 (1938). 



Tentative diagnosis: Disease of the joints, due perhaps to venereal disease. 



CASE 56 (Informant not recorded ; probably Tcatc) : 



We are not sure of it, but we also suspect some other people owning lode- 

 stones. One of them is Ma :le, a Chemehuevi woman about 40 years of age. 

 She is married to Aha Ksuu :k (or Mat-ha Manye:) of the Mah gens, whom 

 A. W. allegedly raped in his youth (Devereux, 1950 a). 



CASE 57 (Informant: Tcatc) : 



I myself used to see lodestones when I was cooking for railroad workmen, 

 over there at the Boundary Cone. One sees these things in dream. These stones 

 are like living people. You find them together, like villages. When you dream 

 of them, it seems as though all those little lodestones were coming to visit you. 

 They are real persons (ipa:). You find men and women among them. They 

 have souls. They have little children too. When one gets sick, one sees all the 

 little lodestone kids that are coming to visit one. They are people, and have 

 children, and increase and decrease in numbers, just like people. They do not 

 die. How could they die when they are like ghosts (nyevedhi:) ? 



Tentative diagnosis: Hallucinations (?) during organic illness. 



The attitude toward charms is, perhaps, best revealed by the fact 

 that Tcatc, after speaking of insanity induced by witchcraft, and 

 its cure, spontaneously switched to a discussion of charms. Hence, 

 it seems best to describe the attitude toward charms in Tcatc's own 

 words : 



There are altogether five such substances : tcapany, talyaveh tcukac, ama- 

 tata :vos, hunyavre itcerk, and katc humu :kwa. They are all people, and what 



" Dying patients are usually taken home from the hospital, so that they can die in 

 familiar surroundings. 



