PARSONS] FOLK TALES 375 



he went to the lake and always she was there, the queen. After a 

 long time he happened to tell his father. 



His father had said to him, "My son, my son, you are going out 

 every day, and you do not take your partner out with you. How is 

 that?" "Yes, father. I have been going alone. Now the day has 

 come to tell you what I have been doing. The first day we went to 

 Salt Lake we met such nice people, reide and reinade. They both 

 shook hands with me, then with my friend. \Miile she was shaking 

 hands, she put some honey in my hand and told me to eat it." His 

 father said, "My son, my son, you are doing wrong. Have you 

 mixed with that woman?" "Yes." "I have raised you, but I have 

 not given you yet what you need (meaning a wife)." Then the old 

 man dressed his son in buckskin leggings and gave him a banda of 

 rabbit fm* and a quiver (atuamu sher-tai, arrow cover on the left), 

 and red (pari) and black shiny paint for his face. "Now you come 

 with me. This is the last day you will be with your father. We will 

 take you to the queen's house and see how you will look with the 

 queen." His father was walldng in front of him. When they got 

 to the door, his father said, "You are not going to EUmai." (Where 

 we go when we die.) They knocked at the door. The long said, 

 "Come in!" The father said, "No, we shall not come in. I want to 

 see your wife." The king brought out his wife. The cacique said to 

 her, "Do you know tliis young man?" She looked at the king. 

 The cacique said, "Do you know this man?" The queen said, 

 "Yes, I know this man well." The cacique said, "Now, my son, 

 you stand next to her, and see how you will look." (His son's name 

 was Loo, arrow.) "Now both go to that platform and stand there." 

 When they stood there, he said, "My son, you stay right here. When 

 you were born Indian, you were supposed to be Indian, you were not 

 supposed to mix with Mexicans." Then as they stood there they 

 both turned into stone. (Here the narrator began to cry.) And 

 the cacique went aw^ay ciying. . . . That is why we say, you will 

 turn into stone if you mix with Mexicans.'^ 



8. How HuMUHU WAS Born 



They were living at Kaipeai,^^ a girl and her grandmother, and the 

 people did not like them. They would spit on the girl. She would 

 go begging, but they would not give her any food because they hated 

 her. One day all the people were going out for pinon, and she said 

 to her grandmother she woidd Uke to go, too. So she went out after 

 the people. Looking for them, she came to a pinon tree, and a lot of 



"' The belief itself may he derived from the Mexicans. Pilgrims to the Augustinian sanctuary of Chalma 

 are shown two stones which represent a padre and his houselceeper who were frivolous on pilgrimage. 

 Cp., too, Mexican Folkways, I, No. 5, p. 24. 1926. 



" See pp. 359, 360, 363. 



