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82. The Ckyixg-for Medicine 



Th^ wife of a certain man kept runnino- away from him. One time 

 wlien he was out hunting, he pursued w^hat he thought was a bear and 

 saw it go into a hole in the side of a cliff. He knew that it was medi- 

 cine, so he took his slave up to the top of the cliff and let him down 

 in front of it, telling him to reach a dipper in and take whatever came 

 out. With the things so obtained the man compounded a medicine 

 which made his wife want to come ijack to him, ])ut he refused to take 

 her. It would also bring down any animal he wanted, so that he 

 became very w^ealth3^ 



S'A. The Uun a way Wife • 



The wife of a Ilaida youth kept leaving him luitil he learned from 

 a certain woman how to make her love him. When she tried to come 

 back, however, lie refused to take her, and married somebod}^ else. 



84. The Rejected Lover 



A youth was in love with his cousin, ])ut she would have nothing to 

 do with him. Finally, in order to please her she made him throw away 

 his clothing and ornaments and pull out all of his hair, after A\'hich 

 she left him. Then a loon came to him and restored his hair by diving 

 under water with him. It also gave hack his clothing and landed hiu! 

 at another town where he man'i(>d the daughter of Calm. A long time 

 afterward they Avent back to his people. Every day while they were 

 there he })rought his wife w^ater, and she put a (luill into it before 

 driidving to see whether he had been faithful to hei-. One day the girl 

 he had formerly been in love with seized his hand, and when his wife 

 tried her (|uill the water was slimy. Then she left him and started 

 to walk home on the surface of the sea. H(^ followed her, but pi-es- 

 ently she looked I'ound on him and he went down out of sight. 



85. The Faithless Wiee 



The wife of a certain man pretended to die and was put into the 

 grave box. Then the son of the town chief, with whom she was in 

 love, took her to his father's house and married her. One time her 

 little girl came to that house for tire, saw her, and told her father. 

 Then her father went to the grave l)ox and saw it was empty, and 

 through the smoke hole of the chief's house he saw her playing with 

 the chief's son. Then he made himself a wizard by playing with dead 

 men's bones, flew to the chief's house, and ran two sharp-pointed 

 sticks into the hearts of his wife and her new husband. Next morning- 

 he went out gandjling. 



