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called to her husband, aud seized one leg of the monster with both 

 hands. Then she and her husbaud gashed the legs in many places, 

 and, after tying a thong to one leg, they pnlled down the monster aud 

 bound him securely. They guarded him till it was day. Then they 

 beheld a hideous monster covered with thick hair, except on his faces. 

 They split his ears with a kuife, and within one they found their long- 

 lost sou, who was very lean and unable to speak. He had a thick coat 

 of long hair on him from his legs up to his head, but his head and face 

 were smooth. And he would have become an Anuijg-ite had he not 

 been rescued. He did not survive very long. After the parents had 

 taken their sou from the ear of the monster they put many sticks of 

 wood on a fire, aud on this thej' laid the monster. He soon was in 

 flames, aud they stood looking on. Many things were sent flying out 

 of the fire in all directions, just like sparks. The.se were porcupine 

 quills, bags, all kinds of feathers, arrows, pipes, birds, axes, war-clubs, 

 flints, stones for sharpening knives, stone balls resembling billiard balls, 

 necklaces of ttdi shells, flints for striking tinder, flint hide-scrai)ers, 

 whips, tobacco-pouches, all kinds of beads, etc. ' 



PENATES. 



§ 235. It has been supposed that the Dakotas had no penates or 

 household gods ; but according to Eiggs,- '' such have come into the pos- 

 session of the missionaries. One of these images is that of a little 

 man, and is inclosed in a cylindrical wooden case, aud enveloped in 

 sacred swan's down." 



GUARDIAN SPIRITS. 



§ 230. Each Teton may have his special guardian spirit. If such 

 spirits are remembered they confer great power on their favorites. 

 The latter may be surrounded by foes aud yet escape, either by receiv- 

 ing great streugth, enabling them to scatter their enemies, or by being 

 made Invisible, disappearing like a ghost or the wind. Sometimes it 

 is said that one is rescued by being turned into a small bird that flies 

 off' in safety. (See §§ 122, 325.) This refers to those who "ihaijbla" 

 (have intercourse with spirits) or who have guardian spirits (tawasi- 

 cuijpi) as servants. Bushotter's stepfather has a guardian spirit who 

 enabled him to tell about lost animals, etc., and bad deeds, even when 

 the latter were committed in secret. So Bushotter and the other chil- 

 dren of the household were afraid to do wrong after they had been 

 detected several times by the aid of the guardian spirit. 



BELIEFS ABOUT THE BUFFALO. 



§ 237. In several of the Siouau tribes the buffalo is considered a 



'Translated from the original MS. in the Bushotter collection. Tuki is the Teton name for a uni- 

 valve shelltish .said to come from the Great Lakes. 

 'Tah-koo Wah-kon. p. 71. 



