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will mature if you do that, if you believe me, if you do what I tell 
you. Look at this person,’ he was told. As he looked in that direc- 
tion, lo! there was an old white-headed man seated. ‘Well, you 
see him, that is you,’”’ he was told by the one who blessed him. 
And as he looked at the one by whom he was addressed, lo! it was 
a very handsome person indeed. 
“At any time you desire you will pick up fine medicine. At some 
time soon as you continue to mature you will desire it. I shall not 
fail to know when you desire it. To be sure your fellow-people go 
about here in possession of it. Yet we give it to those we bless. 
We own it. Oh, to be sure, we may give them permission to transfer 
it to each other, as they are inclined. But we do not think of those 
(who have it) one after the other subsequently; the very person whom 
we bless is the one we look after,’ he was told. ‘I have now told 
you how long you will live if you desire it. At that time transfer 
that medicine to this one * so I shall think of one who knows it; in 
the same way it will be transferred to you. You will truly have 
power to kill the people when you use that medicine against them. 
You will destroy them even from afar. If you desire that all be 
blind, you will have power over them so they will be so afflicted. 
And you will see as well in the night as in the daytime if you have that 
medicine,”’ he was told by the one by whom he was blessed. 
Then he awoke and at once ceased to be sleepy. The next day 
when he ana his grandfather were alone he told him what he had 
dreamed. After he had told him all, (he was told), ““Well now, my 
grandchild, this day when that single manitou blessed you, you 
probably thought, ‘(he is) a true manitou.’ If you had not told me 
this, and if you merely proceeded to do as he told you, he would ruin 
you terribly. Now when he said this to you, ‘cook him,’ when he 
said to you, ‘you are to divide him into five parts,’ he did not really 
mean that he demanded (?) a dog from you: yonder in the future he 
indeed desires of you five of your children-to-be; exactly such is the 
number of your children who would die. And the good medicine of 
which he speaks to you so that you may kill people, it is not good at 
all. Another (medicine) is really good, when it cures any one that 
is sick, that really is good. The one who truly knows the medicine 
that cures each and every one, the one who thereby gladdens the 
people, is beloved by them. When he (she) dies, he (she) is terribly 
lamented. And that (other) is evil: those who know it make all the 
people ery. It is surely a little evil spirit who has blessed you, my 
grandchild. Verily, you must not accept the blessing as he has 
bestowed it upon you. Pray, how did the one who blessed you make 
his body, appear! 2” he was told by his grandfather. 
1 That is the manitou noe the — Ssing. 
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