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the next moruing he awoke and traveled on to the place of the super- • 

 natural beings. They heard somebody crying and went outside and 

 said: "Oh, see; that is poor Blue- Jay; perhaps his sister died." He 

 landed and the supernatural people went down. He said : " She died on. 

 the same day when 1 bought her." " When did she die ?" " Oh, five days 

 ago." They tried to cure her there on the beach. Her heart began 

 to move and they carried her up to the house. There they continued 

 to cure her. And Blue- Jay's wife resuscitated. Her hair was so long 

 that it hung down below her buttocks. ]!fow they brought Blue-Jay 

 into the house of the oldest one of the supernatural people, they 

 worked over him and made his hair grow until it hung down to his 

 thighs. They said to him: "Eemain here; you shall do as we do. 

 When a person has been dead five days you shall cure him." Early 

 the next morning the supernatural man arose. [He sat down with 

 Blue- Jay] and said : " Spit [as far as you can]." Blue Jay tried to sx)ity 

 but his saliva fell down near by. Then the supernatural being spat^ 

 and his saliva struck the other side of the house. Five days Blue-Jay 

 tried, then he spat, and liis saliva struck the other side of the house. 

 Now he became a chief. He stayed there some time and then he 

 became homesick. The supernatural people told him: "When you go 

 home never give your hair in payment for a wife." Blue-Jay went 

 home. He arrived at his elder sister's house with his wife. 



The younger brother of the woman had grown up. One day he 

 went some distance and reached Blue- Jay's house. He peeped into the 

 house through a hole and he saw his elder sister sitting with Blue-Jay. 

 Blue-Jay's hair reached down to his thighs. The boy came home, but 

 he did not tell anything. Early the next morning he went again to the 

 house and peeped into it, and again he recognized his sister. Five 

 times he went and then his elder sit-ter saw him. She called him: 

 "Come in, come in, brother." He entered and she gave him to eat. 

 Then the boy went home and said to his mother: "My elder sister is 

 staying with Blue-Jay." The jieople took a stick and whipped him. 

 He cried : " Indeed, indeed, she gave me to eat. She called me; I went 

 into the house and she fed me." Then the people went to the burial- 

 ground and saw that she had disappeared. Only the canoe was there. 

 They sent a young man to Blue- Jay's house, and, indeed, there was the 

 chiefs daughter. Tlien the chief said: "Go to Blue- Jay and tell him 

 that he must give me his hair in payment for his wife." The messen- 

 gers went and said to Blue- Jay : "The chief wants your hair." Blue- Jay 

 did not reply. Five times they spoke to him. Then the chief said to 

 his people: "Let us go, we will take her back." IS^ow the people went. 

 They took hold of her, one at each arm. They put her on her feet [and 

 dragged her out of the house]. Then Blue-Jay began to fly. He 

 became a blue-jay and flew away: wa'tsEtsEtsEtsEtsE. The woman 

 collapsed right there. Then they called him : " Blue- Jay, come back, 

 she shall be your wife." But he did not return. Now they buried her 

 again. She had died again. 



