MicHELSoN] OWL SACRED PACK OF THE FOX INDIANS 45 
“That is why I myself bless you. At the very time I blessed you, 
he had already come to me. ‘Do that very thing,’ I was told. ‘Pity 
them,’ I was told. That verily is why it was a good thing for me to 
pity you. ‘Maybe that I shall manage to get my smoking here that 
way, I thought. That is why I spoke to you. ‘To-day I truly give 
you my body that I may help you in your life,’ is what I think of you. 
(That is) why I thought it: ‘I shall please that one who is above, 
the leading one here on earth, the manitou who created this earth.’ 
“You will truly please me if you do not cease thinking of what I 
tell you. You will surely try to obey what Isay to you. The people 
will as if lean upon this which I tell you. Verily after all of you 
really know it to be a fact, then they will hear us, so I shall truly 
think. I myself will be close by there to listen to you. And do not 
think little of it. When you tell the young (people), even if they poke 
fun at you, you shall tell them quietly. Do not think of speaking 
harshly. You will think, ‘of course quietness is the only way.’ 
“After you have untied your sacred pack, after your ceremonial 
attendants have unpacked and laid it down for you, then you must 
be very careful. You will speak softly to each other. Do not 
think of speaking harshly to each other. As many of you as sit 
together when you celebrate a gens festival, just so many shall be 
as brothers to each other, and the women shall be your sisters. 
Do not marry each other: (but) you shall love each other,” they 
were told by that man. 
‘‘And J shall give you this pipe. You shall smoke it twice during 
the entire summer. This is why you all should smoke, that you be 
not afflicted with disease. That is why you should smoke. If any 
one goes about with it in him, he will cease having it in him. That 
shall be the power of the catlinite pipe. Verily, after gens festivals 
the people will be in good health. No one shall go away continuing 
to be in bad health. He will continue in good health like (the 
others). If any goes about in bad health, if he smokes, he will 
straightway have good health. 
‘‘Now what I tell you will come to pass. So you must zealously 
endeavor to carefully think of it. Lam not speaking to you for fun. 
Exactly what I say to you shall come to pass. Nor shall I bless you 
here for a little while when I think of you. Until this earth ceases to 
be ansearth, is as far as it will take care of you, if you always think 
seriously of it, and if you keep on holding gens festivals. 
‘‘And, moreover, if you go toward your enemy to attack them, 
you will not leave each other there. As many as accompany you 
will come (back) happily while we are living. At the time when you 
