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house where the dead were, to go and fight with the Ghosts. They 

 marched up to the burial-ground very quietly, whde the attendants 

 kept on singing in the house, beating the skin drums with their 

 drumsticks. 



When the shamans arrived at the burial-place, the new shaman 

 said, "Now, my dear friends, two of you shall enter at each rear 

 corner, and two at each front corner, of the house of the Ghost chief, 

 and I will shout outside of the house. Then all the rest of our friends 

 shall shake their rattles, and the bones with supernatural power 

 which hang around your necks." Then the four shamans in the 

 house of the Ghosts shall shake their rattles and the bones on their 

 neck-rings, and then all of us will enter; and when all the Ghosts run 

 out, each of us will take the soul of one of the young people." 



After the new shaman had finished his speech, he walked around 

 the grave four times, following the course of the sun. He was 

 shouting louder and louder; and when the four shamans in the house 

 of the Ghost heard the shouting outside, they began to shake their 

 rattles and the bones on their neck-rings, and all the shamans who 

 stood near the grave shook theirs also; and when the Ghosts heard the 

 noise of the bones around the shamans' necks and their rattles, they 

 ran out of the house, but the souls of the young people remained inside 

 the house of the chief of the Ghosts. Then all the shamans rushed 

 in, and each took the soul of one of these young men who had died 

 the night before, and whose bodies were scorched in the fire. Their 

 souls were about to run out with the Ghosts, for they were really dead. 



Then the shamans went down to the house where the bodies of 

 the young people were, while the attendants were singing and beating 

 the skin drums. Then all the shamans came in and did their work. 

 Then the new shaman said, "Now, friends, let us return the souls 

 that we have to the bodies to which they belong!" and each shaman 

 put the soul of a young person into his body, and the young people 

 awoke, like persons who have been asleep. They went to their 

 homes, but they were not yet like living beings. Therefore their 

 parents paid the shamans again to take off the ghostly quality from 

 these young people. The shamans worked over them for four days, 

 and then life came back to them. 



The people said, therefore, that no young people should go about 

 alone, without their parents. That is the end. 



57. The Man Who Bound Up His Wrinkles' 



There was a shaman who lived on a little island outside of Inver- 

 ness, at the mouth of Skeena River. He had a little house on the 

 little island; and ho used to make arrows, which he sold among the 



i Notes, p. S60. 



