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he will sometimes kill him. Sometimes they kill a relative of the chief.. 

 Then a family feud originates. If they pay a blood fine to each other, 

 then they make peace again. They do not make peace until several 

 are killed. 



27. When a shaman and somebody who has no guardian spirit are 

 angry against each other, and the shaman sends disease against his. 

 enemy, he is killed. When he gives away many dentalia, he is not 

 killed; they forgive him. When the wife of a man is taken away, he 

 secretly pays the shaman, who sends disease, sometimes to the man 

 [who eloped with the woman], sometimes to the woman. When a 

 deceased relative's wife is taken by a stranger, a shaman is paid 

 secretly and the woman or the man is killed. When a woman has 

 many dentalia and her elder brother dies, she pays secretly a shaman, 

 giving him dentalia, and he sends disease to a relative of the one who 

 killed her brother. She takes revenge on a relative of the murderer 

 of her elder brother. Sometimes she marries the shaman. She gives 

 herself secretly in payment and sends her busbaud [to kill her enemies]. 



28. When the shamans sing and one of them says: "I have a great 

 guardian spirit," then the other shamans try him. When he really has 

 a guardian spirit, one of them tries to hit him with a disease spirit, but 

 he misses him. Another shaman tries him, but he also misses him. 

 Several shamans try him, but they can not hit him. Then they say: 

 "Behold! He is really a shaman." When he only brags, saying that 

 he is a shaman, they try him and hit him at once. When a strong man 

 sings and shamans try to send him disease, they can not hit him. 

 When a person sings: ''I am a strong man" [without being a strong 

 man], and they send disease to him, he dies at once. 



29. When somebody is made sick by his guardian spirit his friends 

 say to a shaman : '' Please sing for him." They pay the shaman who 

 sings for the man whom his guardian spirit made sick. Then the 

 shaman sings until he gets well. If he is not made well, he must die. 

 This is the case with men and women. 



30. Wh'^n a shaman tries his power, he sends disease to the bark of 

 a tree. The bark bursts at once and falls down. Then he thinks: 

 '* Indeed, I have the powers of a shaman." When an eagle sits on top 

 of a spruce tree, the shaman sends disease against him. He falls 

 down at once, his mouth full of blood. Then he thinks: "Indeed, I 

 have the powers of a shaman." 



31. When the weather is bad, the people ask a good person who has 

 a guardian spirit of the sea to sing for good weather. He says: 

 " When the sun stands there and there, it will clear up." When it 

 will be bad weather for a long time, he says: " It is too difficult for me, 

 probably it will not clear up. I can not do it." 



32. When a person is shot, a "strongman" is paid. "Lend him your 

 guardian spirit." Then they pour water [on the face] of the person 

 who is shot. The blood squirts out; all the blood comes out. Then 



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