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to the council-house, where the gathered tithes of tobacco were burned in 

 the council-fire. While the tobacco was burning, the agile and athletic 

 danced the rain-dance. 



When this was done, Hi-nft°, pleased with the incense of the burning 

 tobacco, called forth huge dark banks of rain clouds and took personal 

 charge of the gathering storm to guide it to wet the dry and parched 

 earth. Hi-nu° was considered a great lover of tobacco, but always in 

 want of it. 



A CURE FOR ALL BODILY INJURIES. 



This was made from the dried and pulverized flesh of every known 

 bird, beast, and fish. Equal portions of this flesh were mixed into a 

 compound, which was divided among all true medicine-men. 



A WITCH IN THE SHAPE OF A DOG. 



Witches could and did assume animal shapes. 



On the Buffalo Reservation a man saw a " witch- woman" coming, with 

 fire streaming from her mouth. Crossing a creek and obtaining his gun 

 the man returned and saw a dog at no great distance resting its fore- 

 feet upon a log, and it had fire streaming from its mouth and nostrils. 



Tlie man fired at it and saw it fall, but as it was very dark he dared 

 not go near it; but on the following morning he went to the spot and 

 saw where it had fallen, by the marks of blood from its wound. Track- 

 ing it by this means he followed its path until it had reached a bridge, 

 where the woman's tracks took the place of the dog's tracks in the path. 

 He followed the bloody trail to the Tonawanda Reservation, where he 

 found the woman. She had died from the effect of the shot. 



A MAN WHO ASSUMED THE SHAPE OF A HOG. 



On the Tonawanda Reservation three boys were coming down a hill, 

 when they saw a large hog, which they concluded to follow to iind its 

 home. As they pursued the hog they continually kicked it, and it 

 retaliated by biting at them at times. It retreated toward the bank of 

 a small creek, reaching which it suddenly disappeared. They saw no 

 reason to suppose that it had drowned itself in the stream ; but while 

 searching for it they found on one of the banks an old man, who 

 laughed and said, " What do you seek?" They answered, " A hog." 



