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 Chapter V. — Dakota and Assiniboili cults — Continued. 



Feticliism 498 



Public or tribal fetiches 498 



Private or personal fetiches 498 



Ordeals, or modes of sweariug 499 



Sorcery and jugglery 439 



Omens 500 



Bodily omens 500 



Animal omens 500 



Omens from dreams 500 



Chapter VI. — Cults of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Sapona 501 



Authorities 501 



Alleged belief in a Great Spirit 501 



The great mystery a modern deity 501 



Polytheism 502 



Worship 502 



Fasting 502 



Sacrifice 502 



The Okipa 502 



TheDahpike 503 



Cult of the Yoni 505 



Al>saroka fear of a white Ijuffalo cow 505 



Mandan cults 506 



Maudan divinities 506 



(Juardian spirits 507 



Mandan belief about serpents and giants 507 



Thunder lore of the Mandan 508 



Astronomical lore 508 



Mystery objects and places of the Mandan and Hidatsa 508 



The mystery rock 508 



Dreams 510 



Oracles 510 



Fetiches 510 



Folklore 511 



Sorcery 511 



.Jugglery 512 



Ghost lore 512 



The future life 512 



Four as a mystic number among the Mandan 513 



Hidatsa cults 513 



Hidatsa divinities 513 



Animism 514 



Worship of the elements, etc - 514 



Serpent worship 514 



Fetiches 515 



Tribal fetiches 515 



Personal fetiches 515 



Oracles 516 



Dreams 516 



Berdaches 516 



Astronomical lore 517 



Foo<l lore 517 



I'our souls in each human being 517 



Sorcery 517 



Disposal of the dead 518 



