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hoofs in her right hand and a big knife in her left. On her back is a 

 large carrying basket in which to carry away naughty children. 



Her call is su-'u-ki''. 



"She may come any time they want her. Sometimes she comes 

 with the mixed dance, but she can come at any time. If a woman has 

 a naughty child she will ask the Idva chief to biing in Suyuki. Then 

 she will come and frighten the children. She shakes her cane at them 

 and threatens to carry them off and eat them. She doesn't touch 

 them. 



"She used to come sometimes after itiwan'a." 



The following is a native account of a visit of Atocle to the peach 

 orchards in summer. During July and August when the peaches are 

 ripe the old people and the children camp at the peach orchards to 

 keep off marauders, and later to pick and dry the peaches. Atocle 

 sometimes comes at this time to beg for fresh meat and peaches. 



"So there, after a few days, on Corn Mountain, Atocle built his fire 

 at night. He made his fii'e on Coi'n Mountain. Grandmother said 

 to me, 'Hiya! Atocle is about to come down!' So she said to me, 

 but I did not believe it. 'She is lying to me,' I thought. But indeed 

 she was right. He was going to come down. We went to sleep. Next 

 morning again his smoke rose. So indeed it was right. Atocle was 

 about to come down. 'You didn't believe it!' grandmother said to 

 me. 



"Just at noon he came down. 'Look over there! He is coming 

 down!' grandmother said to me. The children who were staying 

 with their parents at the peach orchards cried, 'Oh, dear! Atocle is 

 coming down! ' they said. Then I ran away to my other mother, my 

 old mother.-^ 'Mother! Atocle came down!' I said. 'All right, 

 go into that rock crevice over there,' she said to me. 



"Meanwhile he came to where my grandparents were staying. 

 Atocle: 'Where are the children who live here? They are very dis- 

 obedient. Therefore I have come down,' he said. 'There aren't 

 any naughty cliildren here,' my grandmother said. 'But this old 

 man — now he has no sense at aU!' Thus she said about her husband. 

 She told Atocle. 'Well, -what did your old man do?' 'Well, he 

 was going to eat aU the tortillas by himself. He hid them.' So the 

 old woman told Atocle. 'I tliink it's true. Yom- old man has no 

 sense.' So Atocle said to her. 'No, indeed I have sense!' So 

 grandfather said to Atocle. As he said tliis to him he sprinkled com 

 meal on him. He sprinkled corn meal on him, and he gave him 

 peaches and meat. Then, right there, wherever the people were stay- 

 ing, he went about making them come out. He collected lots of food, 



" Mother's elder sLstcr. 



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