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Wolf mother, and marries two Wolf women. Then he becomes a great hunter. He 

 longs to go home, and takes his Wolf wives along. He has children; and a few of his 

 children return to their own home, while the rest marry among the Indians Ts 317. 



The same element forms also part of the Ts'alc story of the Nass 

 tribe. 



After a number of adventures, Ts'ak' crosses a burning mountain, reaches the 

 house of a chief, whose daughter he marries. The chief tries to kill him by subjecting 

 him to a number of tests. He is unable to overcome Ts'ak', who finally returns with 

 his wife by the same way by which he had come N 126. 



I rather suppose that in a fuller version of the story the infidelity 

 of Ts'ak - and the return of the daughter would follow. 



The Haida stories differ somewhat from the Tsimshian stories 

 which we have just described. 



A young man at T!aq° makes fun of a Frog and is carried away to the Frog town. 

 The youth is asked by the Frog chief, One Whose Eyes They Fear, why he has 

 offended the Frogs, and he replies that human beings do so when they want to marry 

 their aunts. Then he marries the Frog Woman Kai 260. 



The same story is contained in Swanton's Masset series. 



A chief at TIa'qo has two daughters. His nephews are their lovers. One of these 

 steps on the back of a frog which is sitting in the footprints of the girls. Then he 

 pierces it with a stick. They lose the footprints, and do not find them again until 

 they return to the same place. The elder one is met by two men, who take him along. 

 The people ask him why he teased the girl, meaning the frog. To this he replies 

 that he belongs to the Ki'ksade (the Frog family of the Tlingit). They threaten that 

 their chief, One Of Whose Eyebrows People Are Afraid, will kill him. Then they let 

 him marry his aunt. Finally he goes back with many presents. The man's mother 

 hates his wife, and he disappears. He goes back to the Frog town M 557. ' 



Analogous to the stories referred to on p. 752, of girls who are 

 taken by the Devilfish, we find a Skidegate story which tells of a 

 man who is taken by the Devilfish chief. 



While trying to get a devilfish on the beach, the man is pulled under water. He 

 is taken to the town of the Devilfish's father. Finally he gets homesick and is sent 

 back with his Devilfish wife and many presents. After he has lived among the people 

 for some time, he and his wife, for some reason, feel badly, and disappear through the 

 planks of the floor Sk 292. 



A marriage with birds is the theme of Sk 264. The story, however, 

 is of a different type. It deals with the Swan Maiden theme, the 

 story of the man who takes away the skins of bird girls, that have 

 been laid aside while the girls are bathing. 



The opening of the story M 518 recalls to a certain extent the 

 stories here discussed, but it does not end with the marriage between 

 a man and the offended animals. The story is rather analogous to 



i The following Tlingit story is analogous to the tales Kai 260 and M 557 here discussed. A man of the 

 Stikine KiksE'di kicks a frog on its back and faints. His soul is taken to the house of the Frogs, where 

 he is tied to a post. The chief, Frightful Face, orders him to be untied, and tells him that the Frogs belong 

 to his clan. Then he is sent home Tl 232. In this story the clan relationship is different from the Haida 

 versions, and the element of the marriage has been omitted. 



