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she also was a shaman and sent for her. When the messenger came 

 one of the orphans asked, ''How much will they pay the shaman?" 

 "Two slaves," they said. She thought that this was not enougli, and 

 the messenger went back. When he came again, she again asked, 

 "How much are they going to pay the shaman?" "Two slaves and 

 some goods." Then she agreed, and, as soon as the messenger had 

 left, Djiyi'n said to the two girls, "Come on. Let us go." 



As soon as she had arrived at the house she sat down between the 

 two sick people and worked very hard to cure them. Her spirits 

 could see immediately what the matter was. This house was crowded 

 with people except around the fire where the shaman was perform- 

 ing. Then Djiyi'n walked around and said, "The witch that is killing 

 you two has not come." They sent to all the houses in the village 

 and assembled, those who were there in the house in place of the pre- 

 vious occupants. Djiyi'n examined all of them again, and again said, 

 "The witch is not yet here." Finally the spirits in her began to say, 

 "The road of the witch is very clear now. The road of the witch is 

 straight for this house." Again they said, "The witch is coming." 

 By and by they began to hear a bird whistling in the woods back of 

 the house, and she said, "Yes, hear her. She is coming." And 

 when the sound came near the door she said, "Open the door and let 

 her come in." So they opened the door, and there sat a wild canary 

 (s!as!). Then the shaman told her to sit between the two sick per- 

 sons, and she did so. She was making a great deal of noise, and the 

 shaman said, "Tie her wings back." Not long afterward the people 

 heard a great noise like thuhder which seemed a great distance oft". 

 Then the shaman said, " Here are her cliildren. They are offended and 

 are coming in. Stop up all of the holes so that they may not enter." 

 The noise grew louder and louder, however, and presently birds 

 began to fly in right through the boards. At last the house became 

 so full of them as to be well nigli sufi'ocating, and very many of the 

 people were injured. Wlioever tlie birds flew against would have a 

 cut or bruise. All at once the house again l)ecame empty, not a bird 

 being left inside except the one that was tied. 



By this time it was morning, the people having sat in that house 

 all night, and the bird made still more noise. "She is already telling 

 about it," said the shaman. "She wants to go to the place where 

 she has the food and the pieces of hair with which she is bewitching 

 you." Finally she left the house, but although they luid untied her 

 wings she walked along ahead of four men instead of flying. She 

 went up the way she had come down and l^egau scratching at the 

 roots of some bushes some distance up in the woods. There she came 

 upon the top of a skull in which were some hair, food, and pieces <if 

 clothing arranged in a certain manner along with difterent kinds of 



