110 JiUllEAU OF AMEKICAN ETHNOLOGY 



en(;lish translations 



Raven Traveling 



[Told hy John Sky of Those-born-at-Skedans] a 



Over this island ' salt water extended, they say. Raven flew about. 

 He looked for a place upon which to sit. After a while he flew awa\" 

 to sit upon a flat rock which lay toward the south end of the ishmd. 

 All the supernatural creatures la}" on it like Geno',^ with their necks 

 laid across one another. The feebler supernatural beings were 

 stretched out from it in this, that, and every direction, asleep. It 

 was lig-ht then, and yet dark, they say. 



[Told by Job Moody of the Witch Peoples] 



The Loon's place* was in the house of NAnki'lsLas. One da}' he 

 went out and called. Then he came running* in and sat down in the 

 place he always occupied. And an old man was lying down there, but 

 never looking toward him. By and ])y he went out a second time, 

 cried, came in, and sat down. He continued to act in this manner. 



One day the person whose back was turned to the Are asked: '* Why 

 do you call so often?" "Ah, chief, I am not calling on my own 

 account. The supernatural ones tell me that they have no place 

 in which to settle. That is why I am calling.'' And he said: *■' I will 

 attend to it (literally, 'make')." 



[Contiimed Ijy John Sky] 



After having flown about for a while Raven was attracted by the 

 neighboring clear sky. Then he flew up thither. And running his 

 beak into it from beneath he drew himself up. A tive-row town lay 

 there, and in the front row the chief's daughter had just given l)irth 

 to a child. In the evening they all slept. He then skinned the child 

 from the foot and entered [the skin]. He lay down in its place. 



On the morrow its grandfather asked for it, and it was given to hiuL 

 He washed it, and he put his feet against the baby's feet and pulled 

 up. He then put it back. On the next day he did the same thing 

 and handed it back to its mother. He was now hungry. They had 

 not begun to chew up food to put into his mouth. 



One evening, after they had all gone to bed and were asleep. Raven 

 raised his head and looked about upon everything inside the house. 

 All slept in the same position. Then by wriggling continually he 



"The first six of these stories belong to one series and are said to have been formerly reeo\uited at 

 Skedans in the same order. 



