356 CONTENTS. 



Chaptkr V — Continued. Page. 



Heyoka 468 



The concepts of Heyoka 468 



Heyoka feast 469 



Story of a Heyoka man 469 



Heyoka women 471 



lya, the god of gluttony 471 



Ikto, Iktomi, or Unktomi 471 



C'ai)otidaij and Holinogic'a 473 



Anni)g-ite 473 



Penates 475 



Guardian spirits 475 



Beliefs about the buffalo 475 



Prevalence of the beliefs 475 



Origin of the buffalo 476 



The Tatai)gnaski])yaij, or Mythic buifalo 477 



The bear 477 



The wolf 477 



Horses - 479 



Spiders - 479 



Snake lore 479 



The double woman 480 



Deer women 480 



Dwarfs or elves 481 



Bogs 481 



Trees 482 



Customs relating to childhood 482 



Puberty 483 



Ghost lore and the future life 484 



Meaning of wanagi 484 



Assiniboiu beliefs about the dead 485 



Ghosts not always visible 485 



Death and burial lore 485 



Why the Teton stopped burying in the ground 486 



[uiportanee of tattooing 486 



Ceremonies at the ghost lodge 487 



Good and bad ghosts 489 



Intercourse with ghosts 489 



Ghost stories 489 



The ghost husband 489 



The solitary tra\eler 489 



The ghost on tlie hill 489 



The Indian who wrestled with a ghost 489 



The man who shot a ghost 492 



Assinilioiu beliefs about ghosts 492 



Prayers to the dead, including ancestors 493 



Metamorphoses and transmigration of souls 493 



Exhortations to absent warriors 493 



Mysterious men and women 493 



Goplier lore - -- 496 



C;Lnses of boils and sores - 496 



Eesults of lying, stealing, etc 497 



Secret societies 497 



Fetiehism 408 



Public or tribal fetiches - 498 



Private or jiersonal fetiches 498 



