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arrange to have your victim die immediately, or, if you wish, to 

 have him suffer for a long time, by becoming paralyzed. 



This same medicine is used in a similar way in times of scarcity of 

 food. The people offer a shaman tobacco and he would do the fol- 

 lowing: He would take his medicine bundle and walk till he came 

 to the footprints of a bear. Then he would follow the tracks of the 

 bear tiU he came to his lair. Here he would open his medicine bag, 

 dip the striped feather in the medicine, and sing for some time. 

 Wlien he has finished he makes certain sounds and stabs the bear's 

 footprints. Wherever the bear happened to be at that time, he 

 would not be able to walk, and the people would soon overtake him. 

 For that reason this medicine is valued very highly. 



This medicine is also used when one desires something belonging 

 to another. iUl that is necessary to do in such a case is to use the 

 songs accompanjdng the medicine. Then all the things one has 

 coveted would immediately be brought. For this reason they thought 

 a good deal of this medicine. 



If ever anyone uses it in gambling, he will win. 



If again he casts his thoughts upon women, then the power of this 

 medicine M'ould go in their direction, and he will lose while gambling. 

 All the women will, however, like him. He can marry whomsoever 

 he wishes. The same thing will occur when a woman uses this 

 medicine. If she casts her thoughts upon men, she wiU become 

 foolishly enamored of them. For that reason the old people used to 

 forbid women to use it. 



This medicine bundle is also used on the warpath. If a man uses 

 it upon himself and rushes upon the enemy, all those who are in 

 front of him wiU suddenly find themselves unable to move. A 

 person who goes on a warpath, after he has carefully applied the 

 medicine to himself, is invulnerable. It is impossible to kiU him, for 

 no bullets can penetrate his body. 



This medicine was likewise used in hunting for bear, and deer 

 could easily be killed with it. Even those who are not accustomed 

 to hunting could kill game easily if they used it. 



Many of the medicines mentioned above were obtained from the 

 man who was blessed with the stench-earth medicine. Everyone 

 believed that the cures effected by him with this medicine were real. 

 They beheved that this medicine could cure them, and, indeed, it 

 did cure them. It was this man, too, who originated the stench- 

 earth medicine feast. It is a very sacred feast, considered more 

 sacred than any other feast among the Winnebago. Wlien the 

 feast is given, an entire deer is boiled and cut into pieces much 

 larger than any one person could eat. Nevertheless the host orders 

 those whom he has invited to leave nothing upon the plate. Should 

 any guest leave anything upon his plate, the host would give him a 



