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the medicine clay for a rheumatic leg. Another Isletan of my 

 acquaintance had twice visited sanctuario "for pains in the body and 

 for being sad." 



The notion of the evil eye, mal ojo, is familiar. Something is- done, 

 by a medicine man, I surmise, whereby the Mexican old woman will 

 get a headache and for relief have to come to the sick child's house 

 where they will besmoke or incense her and make her sweat, together 

 with the child. ... I heard of the case of a youth who was taken 

 sick one night and unable to pass water. The day before he had been 

 visiting at Jemez with a Mexican. Both the sick boy and his mother 

 believed that he had been bewitched by the Mexican. 



A sick person during ceremonial treatment will not take the 

 medicme of a white doctor. During the influenza epidemic of 1918 

 which was disastrous at Isleta as in other pueblos and resulted in 190 

 deaths, among the strongest and best, a white doctor gave a sick girl 

 some medicine which made her menstrual flow discharge through the 

 mouth and she died. People said that th» doctor had poisoned her. 

 That epidemic was sent by "bad people"; i. e., it v/as witch sent. 

 Lucinda had also heard that it came from Germany whence "bad 

 blood" spread over the world. As at Zuui and other pueblos, the 

 white doctor is called in at childbirth only in difficult cases as a last 

 resort. After a labor of four days he had been called in to attend the 

 daughter of Pablo Abeita. "It was too late," said the doctor, and 

 the girl died. 



There is a tradition at Isleta against having your picture taken, 

 because several years ago a woman on seeing the photograph of her 

 deceased daughter in the house of a white woman exclaimed, "There 

 she is, but she was gone long ago!" and dropped dead. "That is 

 why some people are afraid to be photographed." 



Insanity; Albinism; Man-Woman 



But one case of insanity has been known to my middle-aged inform- 

 ant. This "crazy man" would not keep his shoes on, and he woidd 

 go about hollering before it began to blow or rain or snow. "It is 

 going to blow," people said, when they heard him holler. No reason 

 for his insanity was given. He died at the age of 40. 



There is said to be in town one albino woman with two sons aged 

 21 and 16, also albino. The woman has no other children. She and 

 her husband are said to be wholly of Isletan descent. Her parents 

 who are living are not albino, nor is her sister, nor was her deceased 

 brother. Our informant did not know of any local explanation of 

 this family's albinism nor of albinism in general. 



There is no man-woman (hmide) to-day in Isleta. About 30 

 years ago there was one called Palure who died at a very advanced 



