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when he is inititated. It is called Cina'xlk!, and goes this way, 

 "I am above the world. I walk in high places. There is nobody 

 else after me. I am alone." Those who became luqAna's after 

 this were not like him, because he said, "I am alone. There is 

 nobody after me." They only imitate him. 



There are many kinds of liiqAna's. Some are dog-eaters and some 

 pretend to eat the arms of people. It is previ<nisly arranged between 

 the luqAna' and his father what he is to do and whom he is to injure, 

 and, after the spirit has come out, the father has to pay a great deal 

 of UKjnoy for damages. The luqAna's are always fountl at feasts, 

 and high-caste people stand around them. The people who learned 

 from this boy first are those in the direction of Victoria, and there 

 they think that a person who has performed many 'times is very high. 

 It is only very lately that we Alaskans have had luqAna's. LuqAna' 

 is a Tsimshian word meaning yek.'^ When they j:)erf()rm up here, the 

 southern Tlingit dance Tsimsjiian dances and the northern Tlingit 

 Athapascan dances. 



After this youth had come back to his people from the woods and 

 had shown them all about the luqAna', he went to the Queen Char- 

 lotte islands and came to the greatest chief there. Then the people 

 at that place said to him, "It is terrible the way things have been 

 going on. We have wizards (nuks!ri'ti), who kill men in a sly way. 

 There is one very high-caste person here who has taught himself to be 

 a wizard. And they told him this man's story. 



He and his friend were very dissolute young men who wanted very 

 much to be wizards, and the former begged his slave to tell him 

 what to do. "If you want to become one very much," said he, "go 

 down there and sleep among the driftwood left by the tide. Then 

 you will see what it is." They did this, and a very nice looking 

 woman came to them and taught them witchcraft. This was the 

 mouse (k!uts!l'n). They thought that it was a hue thing. After 

 a while the woman again appeared to them in a dream and said, 

 "Would you like to be among the geese and brants ?" They answeretl 

 "Yes," one saying, "I will be a goose;" the other, "I will be a brant." 

 At once they flew oft" in those forms. They thought that it was a fine 

 thing to be wizards, and would spend all their nights going about that 

 way, never coming in till morning. For that reason the town people 

 began to suspect that something was wrong with them. Nowadays 

 a person among the natives who sleeps much is said to be of no 

 account, for it was through sleep that witchcraft started. They 

 also say that a wizard has no respect for anything and never speaks 

 to his neicfhbors. 



a Actually it is from the Kwakiutl word Lu'koala. Katishan calls it Tsimshiau because the Tlingit 

 received their secret societies through them. 



