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his partner? "I don't lvno\\^ Wien we reached the mountain I went 

 one way and he another." When the man's wife came and asked, he 

 told her the same thing. After that, whenever he went out hunting, he 

 would feed the snake. 



Variant 



A boy and his wife were living together. This boy was a good 

 himter. He would go out every few days and bring in a deer. He 

 had a friend who used to go around with him. This friend the boy's 

 wife loved more than she loved her husband. Pretty soon his friend 

 and his wife went together. Then they wanted to get rid of hun. 

 So one time the witch boy said to the girl, "How would you like it 

 if we got rid of your husband so we could both live together?" The 

 girl said it would be all right if he knew how to do it. So the boy 

 went to his witch chief and told hun what he wanted. The witch 

 chief said he would do his best. The witch boy said he wanted to 

 tiu-n the other boy into a coyote (tuwere). So the witch chief got 

 some cane and made a imakorpeban (ring made it) and gave it to the 

 witch boy to take home. He told hun when he got home to bring 

 together a few friends, all witches, and tell them that he wanted to 

 make a dance and they were to bring his friend into it, and put him 

 through the ring to turn hun into a coyote. So the boy went home 

 with the ring. When he got there, he gathered together some witch 

 boys, and told them what he had been told by their chief. They all 

 said, "All right, then let us have our practice tonight." When night 

 came, he went to his friend and told him to come to the meeting that 

 night, they were going to have dance practice. His friend did not 

 want to go, because he never danced, but the witch boy told him to 

 come just to hsten, they were going to make up a new kind of dance. 

 His friend, however, did not want to go. The witch boy said, "I 

 will go and tell the capitancito that you do not want to come. " 

 When the witch boy got back to the kiva he told his partners that he 

 could not make that boy come and asked how could they bring hun. 



Finally another boy went after him. He knocked at the door and 

 said, "Akuwam'." The man mside would not answer "akuwam'." 

 He knocked hard again and said, "Alvuwam'." The man inside 

 answered, "Al^uwam'hura (come m)." And so he went in and said, 

 "We sent for you a while ago, why did you not come?" He said, 

 "I never dance, and I know notliing about dancing." "That's all 

 right. You must come. Let's go!" So he took the man out to the 

 kiva. When he got there, they all talked to him pleasantly. One of 

 them said, "Before we talk about the dance why don't we go out and 

 steal a chicken. " The others said, "All right, but how are we to do 

 it so nobody mil find us out?" Another one said, "I have a ring by 

 which we can turn ourselves into a coyote. " They all started to 



