KADiN] SHAMANISTIC AND MEDICINAL PKACTICES 273 



" ' You will live (this is addressed to the patient), so help yoirrself 

 as much as you can and try to make yourself strong. Now as I 

 offer this tobacco to the spirits you must listen and if you know 

 that I am telling the truth, you will be strengthened by it.'" 



(What follows is the shaman's offering of tobacco to the spirits.) 



"/7a" ho! Here is the tobacco, Fire. You promised me that if I 

 offered you tobacco you would grant me whatever request I made. 

 Now I am placing tobacco on your head as you told me to, when I 

 fasted for four days and you blessed me. I am sending you the plea 

 of a human being who is ill. He wishes to live. This tobacco is 

 for you and I pray that the one who is ill be restored to health within 

 four days. 



"To you too, Buffalo, I ofl'er tobacco. A person who is ill is offer- 

 ing tobacco to you and asking you to restore him to health. So add 

 that power which I obtained from you at the time I fasted for six 

 days and you sent your spu-its after me who took me to yom- lodge 

 which lies in the center of this earth and which is absolutely white. 

 There you blessed me, you Buffaloes, of ioMX different colors. Those 

 blessings that you bestowed upon me then, I ask of you now. The 

 power of breathing with which you blessed me, I am in need of now. 

 Add your power to mine, as you promised. The people have given 

 me plenty of tobacco for you. 



"To you, Grizzly-bear, I also offered tobacco. At a place called 

 Pointed Hill lives a spirit who is in charge of a ceremonial lodge and 

 to this all the other grizzly-bears belong. You all blessed me and 

 you said that I would be able to kill whomsoever I wished, and that 

 at the same time I would be able to restore any person to life. Now, 

 I have a chance to enable a person to live and I wish to aid him. So 

 here is some tobacco for you. You took my spirit to yom* home after 

 I had fasted for ten days and you blessed me there. Tlie powers 

 with which you blessed me there I ask of you now. Here is some 

 tobacco, grandfathers, that the people are offering to you. 



"To you, the Chief of the Eels, you who live in the center of the 

 ocean, I offer tobacco. You blessed me after I had fasted for eight 

 days. With your power of breathing and with your inexhaustible 

 supply of water, you blessed me. You told me that I could use my 

 blessing whenever I tried to cure a patient. You told me that I could 

 use all the water in the ocean, and you blessed me with all the things 

 that are in the water. A person has come to me and asked mo for 

 life; and as I wish him to live, I am addressing you. When I spit 

 upon the patient may the power of my saliva be the same as yours. 

 Therefore I offer you tobacco; here it is. 



"To you, the Turtle, you who are in charge of a shaman lodge, 

 you who blessed me after I had fasted seven days and carried my 

 spirit to your home, where 1 found many birds of prey Qiterally, birds 



