BUNZEL) DA^•CES OF THE WINTER AND SUMMER SERIES 1019 



" 'Children, you must mind your parents or the earth will crack and 

 the wild man will come out and eat you. 



'"You must not drink water while you are eating or all your teeth 

 will fall out. 



" 'Little girls, do not play with the boys or you will menstruate soon 

 and your breasts wiW get big. And if you have relations Avith the 

 little boys you will be turned into stones. 



"'When your first teeth fallout in the daytime do not throw them 

 away in the daytime, but wait until evening and then ask your grand- 

 mother for new teeth. 



"'Little boys, if your mother is in the sand bed' do not sit on the 

 sand bed or your legs will hurt all the time and you will never be 

 able to hunt.' 



"And he said to the old people, 'When you are cooldng, wash your 

 pot, when you take it from the fire, so that its hps will not get 

 sore. And take the stone that you set the pot on outdoors so that 

 it won't sweat all the time.' 



"He sang ail kinds of things like this right out and the people laughed 

 and laughed and they said to one another, 'Yes; that may be true.' 

 He said all kinds of things and all the people laughed. He said: 



" 'Little girls, if you play with the little boys you will never grow 

 tall, but you will always be short. And if the little boys go with the 

 girls they will never grow up at all. 



"'I know these things are true,' he said, 'because this is what 1 

 have heard from my grandmother, Hemokyatsik, and I always mind 

 what the old people say. And that is why 1 tell you these things. 1 

 want you to mind the old people. This is why 1 have come and this 

 is why 1 have the name the unkind Tcakwena or the old, old Tcak- 

 wena.' 



"That is the way he comes. He always thinks up all kinds of funny 

 things to tell the people. He makes fun of the people, too. If a 

 man is trjang to marry a woman who doesn't want him he talks right 

 out about it. He tells them all kinds of things. 



'"If your brother has touched a woman, you must never touch her 

 or you will come to be your brother's enemy. 



'"If a young man sleeps with his brother he must put ashes on his 

 genitals so as not to come to this brother's wife. Boys and girls must 

 not sleep together \vithout ashes. 



" ' Girls, you must be careful not to put your feet in your basket. If 

 you do the young man you marry will take you away to his house and 

 you will never be with your mother.' ' 



8 Lying in after childbirtti. 



' * ' It is not good for a girl to live with her husband's people, because if he is living in his mother's house 

 be works for bis mother and not for his wife, and if be dies she must go back to her own people empty- 

 banded." 



