CONTENTS. 357 



Chapter V — Continued. Page. 



Ordinals, or modes of swearing 499 



Sorcery and jugglery 499 



Omens 500 



Hodily omens 500 



Animal omens 500 



Omens from dreams 500 



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



Anthorities 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 



Th<' Dalipike 503 



Cult of the Yoni 505 



Absaroka fear of a white buffalo cow 505 



Mandan cults .506 



Mandan divinities 506 



Guardian spirits 507 



Mandan belief about serpents and giants 507 



Thunder lore of the Mandan 508 



Astronomical lore 508 



Mystery olijects 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 



Serjient worship 514 



Fetiches 515 



Tribal fetiches 515 



Personal fetiches 515 



Oracles 516 



Dreams 516 



Berdaches 516 



Astronomical lore 517 



Food lore 517 



Four souls in each human being 517 



Sorcery 517 



Disposal of the dead 518 



Hidatsa belief as to future existence 518 



Sapona cults 518 



