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THE TLINGIT INDIANS 



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quently he died before its expiration. Sometimes, iiowever, his friends 

 interfered and bloodshed resulted. 



A wizard acted upon his victim by obtaining a piece of his clothing, 

 some hair, spittle, or a fish bone from which the person in question 

 had eaten the flesh. Then he made an imaye of his body, which he 

 treated in the way he wanted the living person to sutler, making it a 

 mere skeleton, to bring on emaciation; deforming the hands, to destroy 

 the ability of a woman at weaving, etc. Spittle taken from a person 



Fig. 117. Curved pot^t placed on salmon trap. 



could be used to make him spit himself to death, hair to give sickness 

 in the head, and so with other portions of the botly. The slime of a 

 frog, which is supi)Osed to be poisonous to other animals, was used to 

 bewitch a person so that his eyes and moutii would l)ulgeout like those 

 of a frog. It is prol):ihle that the bones of a human l>cing were also 

 employed in witchcraft, as among the Kwakiutl. but thi> writer has 

 no direct .statement to that ettect. 



A certain TcukAiie'di was a wizard before his conversion to the Rus- 



