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The alder says it burns quickly; the pine says its nose runs and it crackles; the red 

 cedar says it jumps into the lap of people; the yellow cedar, that it falls right into the 

 lap of people BO; red cedar says it crackles, fir says it flies far BO 5; red cedar says it 

 crackles, yellow cedar says its sparks fly far Ne 5.] Before it is taken the yellow cedar 

 asks to be wedged into small pieces, so that it can fly far. K!wek!waxa'we £ tells it to 

 fly into the lap of the girl K 10. The girl comes back from bathing, and is told to warm 

 herself by the fire [first the back, then the front, of her body, then to sit in front of the 

 fire with legsspread BC]. [Hewhisperstothe wood to fly into her lap K if); to burn her 

 groin K 11.] The sparks fly into her lap and burn her, so that she is very ill (all 

 versions). 



The Bellabella introduction resembles the Bellacoola form. There are seven houses 

 in No'le. In one of them lives Raven, who covets the princess Aa'x'taqs. He tries 

 to help her in her work, but she will not let him touch her. One day there is no fire in 

 the house, and he offers to go for fuel. Then follows the usual story II ap. 



The Chilcotin version treats also of Raven and his step-daughter. Raven makes a 

 good fire when it is cold Chil. The Bellabella, Bellacoola. and Chilcotin introductions 

 omit the incident of the bath. 



The Nootka introduction is quite different. Raven has two daughters. He covets 

 the prettier one, and pretends to die. He gives the girls advice what to do if they 

 should be sick Nu 5. 



[He sends his wife out K 10.] Then he advises the girl who has been burnt to go 

 into the woods and to call for medicine [called Echo Of The Woods Ri5, K 9, K 10, 

 Kll]. She is told that when she is far it will shout loud, when nearby in a low voice. 

 Earn herbam quandam esse dixit quae musco innasceretur, recto culmo, sine foliis. 

 Hann investigaret; in hac, cum invenisset, considerat, ita ut culmus in vaginam 

 iniret; quo facto; voluus sanatum ivi. Itaque, postquam puella ad herbam illam 

 investigandam abiit, Corvus clam furtim ad museum cucurrit, sub quo se celavit, 

 ita tamen ut penis tantum exstaret et sic puellam expectavit (all versions). 



In BC and BC 5 the girl beats Raven when she discoveres what he has done. In 

 Chil she recognizes his eyes, and thus his plans are frustrated. 



The fragmenlary versions Sk and M are practically identical with the preceding. 

 In Sk and M the woman is Raven's sister Siwa's. 



The Loucheux tale of Grizzly Bear's daughter, who finds a copper, probably be- 

 longs here too, Loucheux 252. 



In all the more complete versions this incident is the introduction 

 to the story of how Thunderbird carried away Raven's son, and in the 

 best versions to Raven's war on the Thunderbird. 



(b) The Thunderbird Abducts Raven's Son 



(6 versions: Sk 127; H 5.232; H ap 883; Ri 5.211; Ri MS; Ne 5.179. See also 

 K 11.180; Co 5.78) 



After the woman has left, Raven scrapes off some of the secretions of her body, and 

 places it in a piece of cedar bark [a splint of wood placed in cedar bark (presumably 

 reference to the secretion omitted) Ne 5; placed in clamshells Ri 5, K 11; he puts 

 small black scales into a clamshell II ap; also referred to in Sk]. 



A boy develops, who is grown up in four days, and is named Ki'61 Ri 5, Ri MS [Xi- 

 u'lx II ap]. [He finds a boy, whom he washes every day in cold water. He grows 

 quickly, and is named Qe'xenil or LaLana'il. On the fourth day the boy is very strong, 

 able to uproot a tree and to jump very high Ne 5. After four days he finds feet of a 

 child sticking out of the shells, and wraps the child in bark. He puts it back under 

 the stump of a tree. After four days he returns, and the child is so large that he make3 

 a cradle. After four days more it walks, and he makes a bark hut for it. After four 

 days more the child goes home with him. The people make fun of the boy on account 



