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with fine skins and furs. In this they carefully and reverently laid 

 the bod}' of the strange personage. From time to time they would 

 go to this lodge to view the body. When they were going to war 

 they would take two or three featliers from his arms, in the belief 

 that these would secure them success. If they wished for rain, they 

 had only to carry these feathers along after dipping them in water. 

 All their trails were obscured in this manner. The people kept this 

 body many years, and the feathers served them during this time ; but 

 after the advent of the whites these Indians, being driven from 

 their home in the south (North Carolina), lost both the body and 

 the feathers. 



TALES 



94. A Shaman's Deed 



A medicine-man managed to get one hair from the head of a man 

 he wished to kill. Then, having caught a snake, he tied the hair 

 around its neck, and digging a hole in the ground, he put the snake 

 therein, not leaving an opening large enough even for an ant to get 

 through. After putting a stone over the hole, he left the place. 



It was impossible for the snake to escape, so after a while it grew 

 weak, and the man whose hair was around its neck grew weak at 

 the same time. At last the snake died, and in consequence of its 

 death the man also came to his end. 



95. S'hagoditoweqgowa 



( MODEKX ) 



There is a man now (1883) in Canada who sees real S'hagodiyow- 

 eqgowa — False Faces. He goes around a great deal among the va- 

 rious tribes of Indians. 



One day while on his travels he met a S'hagodiyoweqgowa, who 

 spoke to him. The man handed him a plug of tobacco, telling him 

 that he might have the tobacco to smoke. After the man had gone 

 to the end of his journey and was coming home he met a S'hagodi- 

 yoweqgowa near the same spot, with his back toward him. Seeing 

 that this was a different one, he passed by without speaking. Soon 

 afterward he met the one he had encountered before. Saluting him, 

 the man gave him another plug of tobacco, whereupon the False Face 

 said, " I think you would better come and see where we live." " I 

 shall be glad to go," said he in reply. Arriving at a cave in a rocky 

 place, they went in. The man saw a great many S'hagodiyoweqgowa 

 there who were very old, and a good many very young ones. The 

 S'hagodiyoweqgowa gave the tobacco to the oldest one, who said, 

 " You would better give a piece of this to each one present." So he 



