210 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 29 



SUPERNATURAL-BEING-WHO-WENT-NAKED 



[Told by John Sky of Those-boni-at-Skedans] 



Including- their mother and their sister there were ten of them. 

 Bad things came through the eldest/ His younger brothers were 

 like the supernatural beings. One da}^ one of his 3"ounger brothers 

 went out and shouted "• Hu-u-u-u-i."^ Then a cloud came out of the 

 ocean. It came down in front of Gu'Jg.a.^ One stood in the place 

 [which it touched] and they wrestled with each other. After the}" had 

 wrestled for a while the younger brother of Supernatural-being-who- 

 went- naked was pushed down, and' he bewitched him. "Go to the 

 flint point which sticks out in the rear of my father's house," [he said], 

 and he went thither with noise (i. e., quickly). 



By and b}^ the one who was born next to him also went out and 

 shouted. He called in the same way as the other had done, and again 

 the cloud came into the inlet. Again a person stood in the place 

 [which it touched] and wrestled with him. After they had wrestled 

 together for a while, he again knocked him down and said as before: 

 "Go to the flint point which sticks out in the rear of my father's 

 house." Then he went up into the air with noise. 



Now he treated all seven in the same way. Afterward their mother 

 wept. When she was through weeping, she blew her nose out (i. e., 

 cleared her throat) and said: "My eldest son is nothing. My mind 

 is so (i. e., sad) all of the time." 



Her daughter always took care of the Are. Every time the}' went 

 to bed Supernatural-being- who- wen t-naked slept in the place where 

 the fire had been. He was weak. He was unable to sit up. 



Now he heard what his mother kept saying about him. Then he 

 called to his sister: "Sister, come and bring out one of your mother's 

 stone boxes." His sister poured some [water] into one, and, as he crept 

 thither, be fell on his side and almost fainted. After he, had lain there 

 for a while he started to creep to it again, and he crept into it. 



Then his buttocks were floating, and his sister picked up a poker and 

 pressed on his buttocks. After his sister had pressed upon him for a 

 while, she took away the stick from him. Lo, his buttocks were 

 covered with water. And, after he had been in the water for a while, 

 he stretched himself in it. He burst it. 



Then his sister poured some water into another one, and he got into 

 it. After he had been in it a short time (lit., the length of a hand), he 

 burst it l)y stretching. Then he got into another. That, too, he 

 burst with his knees. 



