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On the following morning the people of the village went back to 

 the burial-place, and a strong young man climbed the tree. When 

 he came to the coffin, he opened the box, and there was nothing in it; 

 only the box was full of eagle down. After a while the enemies of 

 the shaman prince died one at a time, and his own relatives also died 

 one by one in the same way. Then the shaman prince had come to 

 be a chief in the Ghost town. He was the head chief there; and while 

 he was there, all the souls of the shamans who had tried to kill him 

 came to the Ghost town. He punished them in the burning river 

 that flows in front of the Ghost town. He cast their souls into it, 

 and they died a second death. The second death of Ghosts is their 

 transfer into cohoes salmon. 



Then the chief of the Ghosts guarded all his people, and all the 

 souls of his relatives; but his four companions who had always been 

 with him while he was alive among men became shamans in his place. 

 They always went to the town of the Ghost chief, and they often 

 talked to him, and the Ghost chief helped them whenever they 

 wanted the souls of some one who had died or some beloved one; 

 and the Ghost chief ordained that if a person had been dead for 

 four days, then the shamans should have no power to put the soul 

 back into the body. So these four shamans did what the Ghost chief 

 told them to do, and the four shamans told the people what they had 

 been told. 



Then the people understood it, and the four men worked among 

 the people as the Ghost chief wanted them to do. They worked 

 many years. 



Once upon a time these four shamans went to the house of a great 

 chief whose young, beautiful son had died, and the whole tribe were 

 mourning over the dead prince. After four days they invited these 

 four shamans in to bring the soul of his dead son back. When the 

 four shamans came into the house where the dead boy lay, they saw 

 his beautiful body. They also saw how sad the parents were, and 

 they told them that they would soon bring back the soul of the 

 dead boy. 



However, the four days had passed. They went to the graveyard, 

 as they were accustomed to do, and came to the Ghost town. The 

 Ghosts met them on the way and smelled of them. They said, "You 

 have a very bad smell." They went to the chief's house. The 

 chief was very angry with them because they had broken his orders. 

 Therefore he said, "You shall not return to your people; you shall 

 stay with me, for you have broken my order." Therefore the four 

 sorcerers never came back again. They also stay in the Ghost town. 

 Their bodies were found in the graveyard, and the people took them 

 down and buried them. That is the end. 



