'''n'oAr] THE SOUL AND THE SHAMANS TRANSLATION. 207 



15. When the soul of a sick person is placed in a canoe and this is 

 carried out into the ocean, the sick one can not recover. 



1(]. The spirits of the seers reach the soul of a sick person. They 

 take it and lift it. They look at it and seize it again. They look again 

 and it has disappeared; then the shaman says that he has taken it. 



17. When they try to take the soul of a sick person and sparks fall 

 down, he will die. It seems just like a firebrand. Thpy try to gather 

 the sparks up. Then the shaman says: " Behold, I shall not cure him." 



18. When a person will die, his soul is heavy; when he will recover, 

 it is light. 



19. When the ghosts watch a soul then the shaman makes a deer. 

 He sends it and it runs away. The ghosts pursue it and leave the soul. 

 They forget it. Thus the shaman deceives them and takes back the 

 soul which the ghosts had left. 



20. When a seer is evilly disposed against a person, he watches for 

 him. At last he finds him asleep. Then he takes out his soul and 

 hides it near a corpse, in a canoe burial, in a thorny place, under a 

 house or in rotten wood. Then the owner of the soul falls sick. A 

 shaman is paid to look for the soul and to cure him. He says: 

 "Oh, that shaman has your soul." They search for it and find it in 

 the country of the ghosts, or in a thorny place, under a house, or in 

 rotten wood, or somewhere in the air. He takes it. When the soul is 

 still hale and well, the sick one will recover. When the shaman's spirit 

 has begun eating it, the owner of the soul must die. 



21. Somebody sends, unknown to anybody, a string of large dentalia 

 several fathoms long to a shaman, and asks him [through his messen- 

 ger]: "Take the soul of that person out of his body." He gives in 

 payment to him, secretly, long dentalia or a woman. Then he takes 

 out the soul of the person against wliom he was sent. The person 

 dies. When his relatives learn about it and come to know the secret 

 they take the shaman and kill him. If they do not kill him and he 

 gives away a large amount of property or slaves, he is not killed. 

 Then he is forgiven. 



[Numbers 1 to 21 were originally Chehalish beliefs and customs.] 



22. It is the same with a very strong shaman. When he observes 

 his wife with a youug man he shoots disease against them. In the 

 same way a man sends a person to the shaman, who gives him goods. 

 He pays him secretly long dentalia or a woman. Then he sends dis- 

 ease to a person. When his relatives learn the secret, the shaman is 

 killed. The relatives of the man against whom he sent the disease 

 kill him. If the disease is found in the sick one, a strong shaman is 

 paid, who takes out the disease. He takes out five diseases [pieces of 

 bone around which hairs are tied] and one rope. He cures the sick 

 one. When the disease has gone right through him before it is dis- 

 covered the sick man must die. Man has two souls. If both are taken 

 out of the body their owner must die. 



