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another. By applying this crystal to one bewitched, hairs, straws, 

 leaves, pebbles, &c., couhl be drawn forth. 



Eha^ii-ta-yd : A medicine man who by the use of a small kettle boiled 

 roots or herbs, and by covering the head with a blanket and holding 

 it over the kettle could see the image of an enemy who had bewitched 

 either some one else or himself. 



YdtyiC^nyu^n.: One who performed miraculous feats by drawing out 

 with alder tubes, hairs, pieces of skin, leaves, &c., from people who had 

 been bewitched with these things. 



Bd-nu'^kiaX-tcrha yu^-ncirhi : Superior medicine man. 



UshW^-rh&rliih : A carnivorous ghost bodied forth in a skeleton. 



U-h nd"-walc: A departing ghost who will revisit its dead body. 



TJ-t-T^u^-tcrhd" -JcH^n : An evil spirit, from whom all witches received 

 their power. 



U-ht-ku^-sU rhii^: (Jne who could assume a partly animal shape. 



ia-stit''-HW°-na; The ghost of a living person. 



TateW^iihuh-ktcdlcwa: An apparition which could emit flames of 

 light. 



U-ht-ku" : A natural-born witch or ghost. 



Nd-yiC^ h-ndnyd-rhu'^nnya^-a : A witch under the influence or x)ower 

 of a superior witch. 



Stories abound in which these personages or spirits are introduced. 



The belief in Tdskii^n7iu''nd, or that the spirit of a person could 

 be in one locality and its body exist at the same time in another, explains 

 much of the phenomena of witchcraft, and accounts for the strange con- 

 fessions oftentimes made by those who were known to have been unjustly 

 accused. 



Many customs still existing show that spirits are supposed to con- 

 tinue to experience the wants of humanity after leaving the body. For 

 some time after the death of an adult his accustomed portion of food is 

 often dealt out for the supposed hungry spirit, and on the death of a 

 nursing child two pieces of cloth are saturated with the mother's milk 

 and placed in the hands of the dead child so that its spirit may not re- 

 turn to haunt the bereaved mother. 



When a living nursing child is taken out at night the mother takes a 

 pinch of white ashes and rubs it on the face of the child so that the 

 spirits will not trouble it, because they say that a child still continues to 

 hold intercourse with the spirit world whence it so recently came. 



THE ORIGIN OF WITCHES AND WITCH CHARMS. 



A great many years ago boys were instructed to go out and hunt 

 birds and other game for the support of their respective families and 

 to learn from practice how to hunt. A certain boy while out hunting 



