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Hodadenon said to his little brother, " Do not go into the Long 

 Lodge. I shall go in alone. You must remain outside." 



When Hodadenon entered the torture chamber he heard the 

 people saying that the two torturing brands would not burn, sur- 

 mising that they were not dry enough. But the wizards knew weil 

 why they would not burn — they themselves were being overmatched 

 b}' superior orenda (magic power). Finally the chief said: "We 

 might as well take a rest, and in the meantime the firebrands will 

 get dry and burn again. So let us lie down." Hodadenon then 

 brought deep sleep on all who were inside the chamber of death. 

 When they were all fast asleep, quickly unbinding his brother fr«m 

 the post where he had been tied, he carried him out to his new 

 brother — the old widow's grandson; then, closing the door of the 

 Long Lodge, he fastened it securely. Thereupon he ran around the 

 lodge, saying aloud, " I want this Long Lodge to become flint, so 

 strong that the greatest wizard can not escape from it, and then 

 I want it to become red-hot at once." 



Instantly the Long Lodge became flint. When it was red-hot 

 the wizards ran around on the inside in an attempt to escape, but 

 they could not. One said, " I shall go out of the smoke hole," while 

 iinother shouted, " I shall get out through the ground," but not one 

 was able to escape from his doom. After a while the roof fell in 

 upon the devoted wizards, whose heads burst with the intense heat; 

 from out the chief's head there flew a horned owl; from the heads 

 of others, owls of various kinds; and from those of still others, a 

 red fox, a gray fox, and a nighthawk. 



After the annihilation of the wizards Hodadenon took his brother, 

 Hotgoendaqsais, to the old widow's lodge. The old woman was very 

 glad and said : " He is my own grandson. I came for him years ago, 

 but I was myself captured by the wizards and I have had to remain 

 here in captivity." 



The next morning Hodadenon said to his grandmother, " Tell all 

 the prisoners to come here, lest evil befall the innocent." "When they 

 had all come to the lodge of the old woman, Hodadenon said, " We 

 will now go through the village and kill all the children of the 

 wizards and anyone else who is left of the maneaters, for some of 

 them may not have been present in the Long Lodge last night." So, 

 going forth they killed all the relations of the maneaters and burned 

 their lodges. 



After that they went outside of the village, where they found great 

 piles of bones which once belonged to persons whom the wizards had 

 killed. These they collected near a great hickory tree. When all had 

 been gathered together, Hodadenon pushed against the tree, crying 

 out to the bones, " Rise, my friends, or this tree will fall on you !" 

 Instantly from the heap of bones living men sprang up. In tlie con- 



