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with. This will not do. Godiont did not do this. Some other person 

 has trifled with us. The one M'ho has done so mnst die. We are not 

 to be trifled with. The people must understand this. It is best for us 

 to move away from this place." " I will tell j'ou," said he to Godiont, 

 " what I want you to do. Make masks as near like our faces as you 

 can, and let men wear them, and we shall work through these masks 

 and thus help the people." " Soon the man who has trifled with us 

 must come here," said the oldest S'hagodiyoweqgowa, " and you shall 

 see what will happen to him." Soon the man came on a run. He was 

 in a kind of crazy fit. Coming right to the spot where the S'hagodiyo- 

 weqgowa were, he fell down and began to vomit blood, and finally 

 died. After that day the people knew it was wrong to make fun of 

 the S'hagodi^'oweqgowa. 



S3. S'hagodiyoweqgowa 



The inhabitants of a village saw an enormous S'hagodiyoweqgowa 

 approaching, whereupon they were very angry and provoked to see 

 that it could think of coming; so they got their bows and arrows 

 read}' to shoot. But the S'hagodiyoweqgowa called out : " Your 

 arrows can not kill me. I have not come to harm you. I have come 

 for tobacco, and you must collect voluntary contributions of it and 

 give me all that you can spare." They did not shoot, for they well 

 knew that their arrows would have no effect except to make the 

 S'hagodiyoweqgowa angry and revengeful. So they collected a quan- 

 tity of tobacco, which they gave to him. Then he left them with the 

 promi.se that he would never trouble them again if during their 

 tobacco harvest they would always set aside a portion of this sooth- 

 ing plant for him. He kept his promise, as he never molested them 

 after this. 



84. S'hagoditoweqgowa 



The Onondaga say that S'hagodiyoweqgowa live in a cave among 

 rocks near their reservation. They assert as a fact that they have seen 

 S'hagodiyoweqgowa going along in front of these rocks and entering 

 the cave, and they believe that many S'hagodiyoweqgowa live in that 

 place. S'hagodiyoweqgowa are represented by the so-called False 

 Faces, or maskers, of the Iroquois. 



85. Genonsgwa 



Three men were himting in the woods. One of them, who was 

 married, had his wife and child with him. While the men were off 

 in the forest the woman and child remained in the lodge. The child 

 was small and swathed to a cradleboard. 



