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While the great white deer was rushing through the forest a pack 

 of black wolves came upon its tracks, and, soon overtaking it, killed 

 both it and the man. The next morning the aged grandmother, 

 in an attempt to repair the damage done through her lapse of memory 

 and great curiosity, followed the tracks of the game in order to find 

 her grandson. The game had beaten a broad trail through the 

 forest as they ran. In the afternoon of the day the youth disap- 

 peared the sky and clouds in the west appeared very red.^" Seeing 

 this, the grandmother exclaimed : " This is certainly an evil sign. My 

 grandson is surely in trouble." This was the very time at which 

 the great white deer and the man were killed. The grandmother 

 followed the trail all that day until the evening at about the time 

 she had seen the red sky and clouds the day before. Then she came 

 on the spot where her grandson and the deer had been killed. There 

 she saw pieces of bloody deerskin, but not a bone, nor a bit of his 

 body. Then she returned home in despair, weeping all the way. 



61. Heart Squeezing and the Dance of Naked Persons 



A woman and her son lived together in a lodge situated not far 

 from a small settlement. The boy began his career by hunting small 

 game, but he soon killed such large game that everyone was aston- 

 ished at his prowess. As he grew older, he went farther and farther 

 into the woods. His mother, however, always warned him against 

 going toward the northea.st. saying that an evil woman lived there. 



One day while hunting the boy thought, " I do not believe there is 

 anyone who can overcome me magically,'" whereupon he determined 

 to go toward the northeast. Starting thither, he soon came to an 

 opening, where he saw a woman who sang out, " I have caught you, 

 my brother," and at that moment the boy, feeling her in his body 

 squeezing his heart, screamed with pain. Then the woman stopped 

 an instant and then squeezed his heart harder than before, causing 

 him intense pain. Just then he heard a woman's voice say, " Hurry 

 home, and as you go. sing, ' I am going to have a naked dance ^'* and a 

 pot.'" The young man did this, and as he sang he felt easier. When 

 he got home his mother said, " You have been toward the northeast, 

 although I told you that you would get into trouble if you went 

 there." The mother immediately sent a messenger to tell her uncle, 

 her mother's brother, what hnd happened, and he inquired what the 

 boy sang. The messenger told him, and he replied. " Tell his mother 

 to notify everyone that she is going to have a dance of naked 

 persons." 



All the people were notified accordingly. The old man came, and 

 one by one all the rest assembled. Then the old man asked whether 

 all the guests were there who had been invited. The wt)man, thj 

 youth's mother, after looking around, said, " Yes." Telling the 



