868 FOX MORTUARY CUSTOMS AND BELIEFS, [ETH. ANN. 40, 
And, so be it, any one ® who thinks of it is told (by the other 
people), “‘Do not think you have separated entirely from the relative 
of whom you have lost sight.’’ And that verily is why one does 
not think of his own mouth.’? And it is why one places (food) at 
the edge of the fire for one’s relatives. Even at the present time the 
darkness comes and stands." And, so be it, they also place water 
with (the food) as (the dead) desire it. 
Oh, how, so be it, will be it that Aiyapa'ti‘* will not be made 
mindful when he first puffs the tobacco? He will be made mindful 
by what he was told by his elder brother. He will think, “ Well, I 
had an elder brother; he told me, ‘you must bless them for my 
sake.’”? And as soon as he is brought this food yonder by his aunts 
and his uncles, he will forthwith be made mindful in this way. And, 
so be it, when this darkness comes to be midnight, then (the ghosts) 
will make a fog smoking this tobacco on their way.” This is said 
of those named (i. e., the ghosts), “They are making a fog smoking.” 
And so they (the ghosts) shall stand in single file. The one named 
first shall stand ahead. (A relative) will speak to him first. And 
(the ghosts) are spoken to as they are named. (Onreturning to Aiya- 
pa‘ti‘“*) they must stand in the order (they stood at the ghost-feast), 
and they must tell what they were told by the one who remembered 
them. They must tellit exactly to Aiyapa'ti’. “Oh this really 
is what they told us who remembered us and whom we left in wretch- 
edness on the face of the earth,’ they will say to him. ‘They asked us 
to think of something good for them, and that they might live long 
with their fellow mortals. That is what they asked of us. And that 
they reach an old age (is what they asked of) their respective rela- 
tives. Oh, they also asked us to return to them this with which 
we are clad. Oh, they also asked us that whenever they were spoken 
to evilly from across the earth (%) (that this might not happen). 
That we kindly remove disease from them, they likewise asked us. 
Those who remembered us asked of us every thing that is good,” so 
be it, they will say to Aiyapa 'ti™*’. 
Oh, they really will live in person with the manitou there. They 
will surely have a nice life there. “Those who remembered us with 
this food ask us that we bless them that way.’’ That is what (the 
ghosts) will say to Lyapa‘ti'* (a variant of Aiyapa‘té‘*) with whom 
they live. 
Now (the ghosts) make the (food) increase: such is the report 
regarding them. ‘‘ Now they said to us that they would increase 
this food." 
9 Literally, this one. 
10 That is, one does not think so much of feeding one’s self as feeding the ghost by having a ghost-feast. 
11 That is, when it is dark the dead relatives take the food. 
1 Free rendition, but the exact sense. 
14 Spoken by the ghost named. 
