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Incidentally Lucinda described a man-woman of San Felipe who 

 is employed in a store at Albuquerque, where he wears men's clothes. 

 At home, in San FeHpe, he wears women's clothes. When he visits 

 Lucinda at Isleta he acts shy like a girl. He talks like a girl and he 

 will wash dishes for his hostess. 



Dreams; Clairvoyance; Omens 



Dream of grapes means something is going to hapi)en to yovn- 

 relations (maty). Dream of somebody passing in a canyon means 

 a grave, a relation is going to die. Dream of shaking hands with 

 somebody or talking close up to them means something good for you. 

 Dream of a medicine man brings good luck. Men would not touch 

 the scalps^' lest they dream of them. Our informant, Abeita, was 

 himself a dreamer and attached importance to his dreams. One 

 morning he told me of a dream about a girl of our acquaintance, a 

 white girl, in which she was caught by a wolf and cried out; but the 

 dreamer's neck was stiff and he could not turn around. "You dream 

 when you worry," said Lucinda. For her part this cheerful spirit 

 did not worry, so she said, and did not dream. But one night when 

 she had gone to a house alone in which there was no light, no fire, 

 she was very nervous and could not sleep for thinking of the man she 

 had seen the week before jumping up and down^° where he had no 

 business. When she did get to sleep she had a bad dream. With 

 another woman from Isleta she was on a cliff from which she could 

 not descend.^' She was wearing a dirty American dress. She won- 

 dered in her dream why it was so greasy. 



Formerly people would talk together about their dreams and so 

 found out what was going to happen. The old man nicknamed 

 Football used to interpret dreams. The old people told about the 

 v.hite people coming before they came; also how wagons without 

 horses would come (automobiles), and horses with two legs (bicycles). 

 (Let us note in comparing this statement with others of the same 

 kind among other Indian peoples that it is the power of prediction 

 which is the main postulation; the content of the prediction will vary 

 and be kept up to date.) 



Clairvoyance is a notable attribute of the medicine men in general, 

 and of the ritual detective in particular. But clairvoyance appears 

 to be practiced also by persons of either se.\ who are referred to as 

 nathorde, with power, powerful. Unhke witches, they use their 

 power to travel long distances^- or to see what is going on at a dis- 



» See p. 260. 

 " See p. 243. 



*' Imprisonment on a cliff is a not uncommon folk tale incident. Xt Namb6 it is believed that such 

 imprisonment is a punishment after death for an unworthy ceremonialist. 

 " See pp. 452 and 265, 310, 321, 331. 



