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52. A pack of fir branches is transformed into stone Ntl Teit 2.45. 



53. Children tobogganing down a mountain-side are transformed into 



stone Ntl Teit 2.45. 



54. A woman roasting a hare is transformed into stone TJ 221. 



55. Coyote's tracks are transformed into stone, Nicola Valley, Ntl 



Teit 3.316. 



56. Bad men are transformed into rocks Ntl 5.16. 



56a. The Transformers change people into fishes and stones, leave 

 their footprints in rocks, and create springs Ntl Teit 2.42. 



Related to these are some cases of transformation of geograph- 

 ical features : 



57. The Transformers create the falls of Bridge River Ntl Hill-Tout 



1.215. 



58. The Transformer makes the tides alternate in Seymour Narrows 



Co 5.64. 



59. At Q'o'djomen the mountain Ko'kuanan is induced to move 



aside Co 5.63. 



60. The Transformers make a river-channel through a swamp Lil 295. 

 60a. The Transformer beats out the brains of one of his brothers and 



throws them into Fraser River, which since that time has been 

 muddy, Kwa'ntlEn, Fraser Delta, Hill-Tout. 1 



There are very few transformations into constellations. These 

 seem to be confined to the upper Fraser River Delta. They are 

 characteristic of the southeastern Salish tribes on the Columbia River, 

 where they occur in the folk-lore of the Coeur d'Alene. 



61. An elk pursued by a man and a dog is transformed into the 



Dipper Sts 5.20. See No. 30, p. 603. 



62. A number of crying children are transformed into the Pleiades 



Sts 5.21. 

 Another group of incidents belongs to the Fraser River Delta. 



63. The Transformers and Mink meet a dangerous woman (LExyiles, 



Stsa): this is a stone located above StsEe'lis Stsa 5.24; Sts6 

 Hill-Tout 5.360; Lil 292. See pp. 614, No. 12; 773; 809. 



Her vagina is set with teeth; and when Mink tries to cohabit with her, she 

 bites off his hand. On the following day he tries to hide his hand Stsa, 

 b; Lil. The sister of the Transformers kills the woman Lil. [Mink steers 

 badly with his left. LExyiles is transformed into stone. When water is 

 sprinkled on it, it begins to rain Stsa.] [Mink warns the brothers not to 

 enter her house (this is evidently an error). His hand is bitten off, the 

 brothers notice it Stsi.] 



i Hill-Tout (see p. 602, footnote 1), p. 414. 



