RUSSELL] CATJSK AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE 265 



A butterfly with striped wings causes internal pains. The treat- 

 ment consists in sinfjing the butterfly song (p. 295) and pressing the 

 body of tlie patient with four or five images of the butterfly cut from 

 deerskin. 



The worm, kS,mm&lt, when found dead and ih'icd is ground up in 

 the mortar and the powder used to ciu-e sores around the baby's 

 moutii. 



One's teeth will fall out if he eats food over which .some caterpillars 

 have crawled. 



The nausea of pregnancy is caused by unfaithfulness on the part 

 of the woman. It is cured by singing the proper songs and striking 

 two sticks a foot long over the patient afterwards. 



The remolinos, or whirlwinds, that are so common in Pimerfa, cause 

 pains in the legs, but not swellings. The remedy is to sing the wind 

 song (p. 324) and to rub the limlxs with the black gum of the okatilla, 

 Fouquiera splendens. 



The sini may cause disease for which there wouUl seem to be no 

 special song. However, a small colored image of the sun with feather 

 rays attached is used by the medicine-man. 



A captured Ai)ache child might cause lameness in some member of 

 the family ])y whom he was kept. It was cured by some on(> who liad 

 killeil an Apache singing over the patient. Then the child must be 

 sold to the Mexicans or Americans. It was also supposed that the 

 touch of an Apache woman might cause paralysis. 



Piholt was once a man, but is now an evil spirit living in the east, 

 and causing a disease which has its songs. 



The Xyavolt, an evil sjiirit, may induce a horse to tlirow liis rider 

 and injure him. The j)aticnt is cured by singing the Xyavolt song 

 (p. 329) and swinging a pair of crossed sticks over the injured part. 



A certain (Hsease of the throat is called wheita, and the same name 

 is given to a stick made from mesciuite root, which is thrust down the 

 patient's throat four times and then pas.sed four times over the heart 

 to cure him. 



Tcunylm is an evil spirit that causes sickness in cliildren. The 

 most characteristic symptom is fretfulness. The Tcunyim song 

 is sung and the child's body is pressed with a strand of hair taken in 

 war from an Apach(>'s head. The hair is cleaned and washed by 

 some okl person, then the ends are glued together with the gum of 

 the creosote bush before it is ready to use. A'mlna sticks tied with 

 bluebirtl and redbird feathers are also used. 



Ka'mal tkik (pi. xliv, b), who was accustomed to assist the 

 doctors, states that this name is applied to a disease of the tliroat 

 which causes the victim to lose flesh. The treatment consists in 

 placing a'mlna in an olla of water to soak while the doctor or his 

 assistant blows through a tube, called the tcunylm cigarette, upon 



