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  FORMULA 
  FOR 
  LOVE 
  CHARMS. 
  377 
  

  

  loathsome. 
  Even 
  the 
  crow 
  has 
  made 
  them 
  so 
  like 
  himself 
  that 
  they 
  are 
  fit 
  only 
  

   for 
  his 
  company. 
  They 
  are 
  very 
  loathsome. 
  The 
  miserable 
  rain-crow 
  has 
  made 
  

   theni 
  so 
  like 
  himself 
  that 
  they 
  are 
  fit 
  only 
  to 
  be 
  with 
  him. 
  

  

  The 
  seven 
  clans 
  all 
  alike 
  make 
  one 
  feel 
  very 
  lonely 
  in 
  their 
  company. 
  They 
  are 
  

   not 
  even 
  good 
  looking. 
  They 
  go 
  about 
  clothed 
  with 
  mere 
  refuse. 
  They 
  even 
  go 
  

   about 
  covered 
  with 
  dung. 
  But 
  I— 
  I 
  was 
  ordained 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  white 
  man. 
  I 
  stand 
  with 
  

   my 
  face 
  toward 
  the 
  Sun 
  Land. 
  No 
  one 
  is 
  ever 
  lonely 
  with 
  me. 
  I 
  am 
  very 
  hand- 
  

   some. 
  I 
  shall 
  certainly 
  never 
  become 
  blue. 
  lam 
  covered 
  by 
  the 
  everlasting 
  white 
  

   house 
  wherever 
  I 
  go. 
  No 
  one 
  is 
  ever 
  lonely 
  with 
  me. 
  Your 
  soul 
  has 
  come 
  into 
  

   the 
  very 
  center 
  of 
  my 
  soul, 
  never 
  to 
  turn 
  away. 
  I— 
  (Gatigwanasti,) 
  (0 
  it)— 
  I 
  take 
  

   your 
  soul. 
  Sge! 
  

  

  Explanation. 
  

  

  This 
  unique 
  formula 
  is 
  from 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  loose 
  manuscript 
  sheets 
  

   of 
  Gatigwanasti. 
  now 
  dead, 
  and 
  belongs 
  to 
  the 
  class 
  known 
  as 
  

   Yu 
  u 
  w6'hi 
  or 
  love 
  charms 
  (literally, 
  concerning 
  " 
  living 
  humanity 
  "), 
  

   including 
  all 
  those 
  referring 
  in 
  any 
  way 
  to 
  the 
  marital 
  or 
  sexual 
  

   relation. 
  No 
  explanation 
  accompanies 
  the 
  formula, 
  which 
  must 
  

   therefore 
  be 
  interpreted 
  from 
  analogy. 
  It 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  recited 
  by 
  

   the 
  lover 
  himself 
  — 
  not 
  by 
  a 
  hired 
  shaman 
  — 
  perhaps 
  while 
  painting 
  

   and 
  adorning 
  himself 
  for 
  the 
  dance. 
  (See 
  next 
  two 
  formulas.) 
  

  

  The 
  formula 
  contains 
  several 
  obscure 
  expressions 
  which 
  require 
  

   further 
  investigation. 
  Elahiyi 
  or 
  Alain 
  yl, 
  for 
  it 
  is 
  written 
  both 
  

   ways 
  in 
  the 
  manuscript, 
  does 
  not 
  occur 
  in 
  any 
  other 
  formula 
  met 
  

   with 
  thus 
  far, 
  and 
  could 
  not 
  be 
  explained 
  by 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  shamans 
  to 
  

   whom 
  it 
  was 
  submitted. 
  The 
  nominative 
  form 
  may 
  be 
  Elahi, 
  per- 
  

   haps 
  from 
  da, 
  " 
  the 
  earth," 
  and 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  connected 
  with 
  Wa'lnll, 
  

   the 
  formulistic 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  south. 
  The 
  spirit 
  invoked 
  is 
  the 
  White 
  

   Woman, 
  white 
  being 
  the 
  color 
  denoting 
  the 
  south. 
  

  

  Uhisa'ti, 
  rendered 
  here 
  " 
  lonely," 
  is 
  a 
  very 
  expressive 
  word 
  to 
  

   a 
  Cherokee 
  and 
  is 
  of 
  constant 
  recurrence 
  in 
  the 
  love 
  formulas. 
  

   It 
  refers 
  to 
  that 
  intangible 
  something 
  characteristic 
  of 
  certain 
  per- 
  

   sons 
  which 
  inevitably 
  chills 
  and 
  depresses 
  the 
  spirits 
  of 
  all 
  who 
  

   may 
  be 
  so 
  unfortunate 
  as 
  to 
  come 
  within 
  its 
  influence. 
  Agisa"ti 
  

   nige'su"na. 
  " 
  I 
  never 
  render 
  any 
  one 
  lonely," 
  is 
  an 
  intensified 
  

   equivalent 
  for, 
  " 
  I 
  am 
  the 
  best 
  company 
  in 
  the 
  world," 
  and 
  to 
  tell 
  a 
  

   girl 
  that 
  a 
  rival 
  lover 
  is 
  uhisa"ti 
  is 
  to 
  hold 
  out 
  to 
  her 
  the 
  sum 
  of 
  all 
  

   dreary 
  prospects 
  should 
  she 
  cast 
  in 
  her 
  lot 
  with 
  him. 
  

  

  The 
  speaker, 
  who 
  evidently 
  has 
  an 
  exalted 
  opinion 
  of 
  himself, 
  

   invokes 
  the 
  aid 
  of 
  the 
  White 
  Woman, 
  who 
  is 
  most 
  beautiful 
  and 
  is 
  

   never 
  uhisa''ti. 
  She 
  at 
  once 
  responds 
  by 
  making 
  him 
  a 
  white 
  — 
  that 
  

   is, 
  a 
  happy 
  — 
  man, 
  and 
  placing 
  him 
  in 
  the 
  white 
  road 
  of 
  happiness, 
  

   which 
  shall 
  never 
  become 
  blue 
  with 
  grief 
  or 
  despondency. 
  She 
  

   then 
  places 
  him 
  standing 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  earth, 
  that 
  he 
  may 
  be 
  

   seen 
  and 
  admired 
  by 
  the 
  whole 
  world, 
  especially 
  by 
  the 
  female 
  

   portion. 
  She 
  finally 
  puts 
  him 
  into 
  the 
  white 
  house, 
  where 
  happiness 
  

   abides 
  forever. 
  The 
  verb 
  implies 
  that 
  the 
  house 
  shelters 
  him 
  like 
  a 
  

   cloak 
  and 
  goes 
  about 
  with 
  him 
  wherever 
  he 
  may 
  • 
  go. 
  

  

  