206 THE SOUL AND THE SHAMANS. [ethnology 



It gets day. They try to give him his soul. It does not fill his body 

 and he must die. His soul has become too small. 



5. When the seers go and their spirits arrive at the water in the 

 country of the ghosts, and the soul of the sick one is still far from their 

 town, and they have not given him food, then the seers say: "Oh, we 

 shall make him well, the ghosts have not given him food." And indeed 

 their spirits take the soul and return. Even if the person is very sick 

 and they give him his soul, he revives at once. 



6. Again the ghosts carry away a soul. The person faints at once; 

 his legs tremble. Then the seers are paid and drive away the ghosts. 

 The soul which they carried away sees the ghosts. He knows part 

 of them; another part he does not know. Only those he knows who 

 died not long ago. The spirits of the seers reach the soul which was car- 

 ried away and turn it round. At once the sick one recovers ; he gets well. 



7. When the ghosts carry a soul away and no seer is present [to re- 

 cover it], when the soul has been away a night, the person who fainted 

 remains dead. Sometimes when it has been away two nights he 

 remains dead. 



8. When the soul of a sick person goes to the ghosts, the seers pur- 

 sue it. If it has already been taken into the house, it cannot be recov- 

 ered. The spirits of the seers cry and return. 



9. When a horse is seen in the country of the ghosts and it is not taken 

 back it dies after a few days. When it is taken back it does not die. 

 Just so a person. When a person is Avell, but his soul is seen in the 

 country of the ghosts and it is not taken back he must die within a 

 short time. Just so a canoe. When the ghosts carry away a canoe and 

 the seers do not bring it back it will be broken, 



10. When a seer wants to shake his manikin [a figure made of cedar 

 bark] he gives it to somebody who has no guardian spirit. Now they 

 go to the ghosts. He helps him. Now this person sees everything 

 in the country of the ghosts. The manikin carries him there. 



1 1. When only one soul leaves the body of the sick person, when it 

 remains in the country of the Indians and it is taken, then the sick 

 person recovers at once. When the lesser soul of a person is caught 

 in the country of the Indians and is given back to the person, he recov- 

 ers after a short time. A soul is in the country of the ghosts ; the 

 spirits of the seers pursue it and reach it when it arrives at the ghosts. 

 They bring it back, return it to the sick person, and he recovers. 



12. When the soul of a chief leaves his body it goes to the beach. 

 ISot many seers know about it; only strong shamans know how it goes 

 to the beach. 



13. When a soul has taken anything that belongs to the ghosts, the 

 sick one can not recover. 



14. When a sick person will die, it is always high water. Then the 

 spirits of the seers walk slowly. When the sick one will recover it is 

 always low Avater, ^ 



