PABSONS] FOLK TALES 361 



watches, we believe; from getting sick, people will remember iema'paru 

 and Wffiide.*" 



They were already up in this world when they fell sick and had 

 to ask iema'paru for power to cure the sick. They were living on 

 some mountain (name forgotten). They could not find the way to 

 begin it (the curing ceremony). They had a meeting to find out 

 how to ask for the power. There were kumpa and kabew'iride, 

 wilaweri (the war chief), the 'White Corn Mother, and all the other 

 Corn Mothers (chiefs of the Corn groups) 



They were thinking it over, thinking it over. At last a boy came 

 in. He had no father or mother or relations. The other boys did 

 not hke him. One of them who had been playing with him, thinking 

 he would harm him, went to the -svilaweri and said that this boy 

 could tell them what they needed. So wilaweri told the fathers there 

 was a boy who could tell them what they needed. They told wilaweri 

 to call him in. So wilaweri called him in and gave him a seat and 

 asked him if he knew how to ask iema'paru for her power. Iema'paru 

 was helping him. "Yes," he said. "To make this power you need 

 the head one of the world; you need t'aikabede (people chief, i. e., 

 town chief)." They did not know who t'aikabede was. One man 

 said that he, the boy, might himself be the t'aikabede. He said, 

 "For you to ask me properly and have me tell you, you must give 

 me a smoke (paki'mu)." So kumpa rolled a cigarette and oflFered 

 it to him. He did not take it. He said, "This is not the right one 

 (kind). You need lepab'pald'mu (lepa, native tobacco)." They had 

 to ask him what lepab'paki'mu was. (This boy was born by the 

 power of iema'paru.) He said to the people, "If you have faith that 

 I am the one to get you out of this trouble, keep your mind on your 

 ceremony, on one road. I will get you this iepab'paki'mu." ^' A 

 young girl was sitting there. He went up to her and said to her not 

 to mind what he did, and he kissed her. That was the first keide 

 (Mother). That is the waj' the keide came out. Now he was holding 

 a big piece of the lepab'paki'mu which he had got with his power 

 when he kissed that girl. He knew she was powerful like himself. 

 He gave the lepab'pald'mu to kumpa, who roUed a cigarette and gave 

 it to him, and he smoked. Before he finished smoking, clouds were 

 all around. Lightning and thimder began to come and rain fell. 

 Then he had to say that he would be their headman (t'aikabede), 

 and the girl would be their keide. That is how they learned to make 

 their ceremony. Wlien they were under ground maybe they were 

 asleep or did not pay attention. That is why they did not bring 

 these ceremonies up with thcin. So they started their ceremonies as 

 they do them now. 



« Compare Dumarest, 215-216. 

 •' See p. 257. 



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