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This is, however, not the case, as will appear from my texts, there 

 being two important phonetic differences: 



(1) The surd dental is not aspirated in '5°'ta'li whereas it is most 

 decidedly so in t'a^li'. 



(2) In '5"'ta'li the liquid is not preceded by a dental implosion as 

 it is in t*a^li'. 



As for the successive incarnations of the animals, according to Og., 

 the only one of my informants who had ever heard of it, this was 

 only the case for the bears (as is indeed confirmed by Mooney's story 

 of the "Bear Man" (Mooney, Myths, pp. 327-329) and by several 

 stories collected by me); neither the deer nor any other animals, Og. 

 states, had the benefit of a second or of any subsequent lives after 

 having once been killed. 



I have found evidence, moreover, that the term '5°*ta'li was also 

 used by the himter, referring to the particle of meat of a killed animal 

 which he offered to the fire to return thanks for his luck. (See p. 21.) 



Finally, by several medicine men still living, '5°^ta'li is felt to mean 

 "the decayed thing," i. e., the offal of a piece of game. The dis- 

 respectful treatment extended to their bones and bowels, now, is 

 exactly what makes the animals so revengeful toward the neglectful 

 hunter. 



From all this I am inclined to believe that '5°'ta'li does not mean 

 "after-ghost" or "secondary ghost," nor that it specifically refers to 

 the ghost of an animal that has been killed before its "lease of life" 

 had been completed. Nor did I find the term asGf'na ever used with 

 reference to animal ghosts. 



To come to a conclusion, I think that I am entitled to adhere to 

 my explanation, and to my distinction between asGt"na "human 

 ghost" and '5"'ta'U "animal ghost." 



The diseases sent by these human and by the animal ghosts are so 

 multifarious as to include practically the whole of known illnesses and 

 ailments. 



Commonly, however, the human ghosts act by "spoiling the saliva" 

 of the victim, whereas the activity of the animal ghosts results in 

 troubles that are not so much of a psychopathological order. Rheu- 

 matism and dysentery, swellings in the cheek, and violent headaches 

 may all be caused in different patients by one and the same animal 

 ghost, e. g., a deer's. On the other hand, several different kinds of 

 animal ghosts may all manifest their ill will and take vengeance on the 

 human race by inflicting one and the same disease, as rheumatism 

 which can be caused by the measuring worm, the rabbit, or the 

 buffalo. 



A species of animal ghosts to which many ailments are ascribed are 

 the various kinds of tcsGO"'ya or insects. 



