oIbrechts] the swimmer MANUSCRIPT 155 



For Making Unattractive 

 DtDa'skwQ'yo "'sto.tr 



to cause them to become loathsome with 



This is the kind of incantation which is recited by a medicine man 

 at the request either of a scorned lover or of a jealous rival. 



In the first case the patron orders the formula to be directed against 

 the haughty object of his affections, and tries to make her so loathsome 

 that she who spurned him will in her turn be scorned by others. 



If the machinations are directed against a rival he is reviled to such 

 an extent that no person endowed with reason could possibly think of 

 pa3dng any attention to him. 



For Separating 



Dt^*DaGale-'N!t0.ti' i;G9-'wutli' 



to separate i)Cople with for the purpose of 



In the previous sections we discussed the kind of ylyweli formulas 

 that are used by a spumed lover and by wliich he takes vengeance 

 of an irresponsive love. 



The kind we now deal with is used to kindle discord and to sow ill 

 feeling between a married couple, or between sweethearts, so tliat the 

 conquest of the party desired may be made the easier by the heretofore 

 unsuccessful lover. 



As already stated (p. 150), this is the incantation against which some 

 protection song may be crooned by husband and wife at night that 

 their love may not be unwrought by evil agencies. 



How THE FoilMULAS AllE ReCITED OR SuNG 



As has been repeatedly stated in the course of this paper, some of 

 the formulas are recited, others are sung. Although there is no defi- 

 nite rule as to which are spoken and which are chanted, it seems that 

 most of the hunting formulas and a good many of the protection 

 prayers are sung. Also some of the curing formulas, but very few of 

 these only. 



As I am not expert at recording music it was thought best to use the 

 dictaphone to register some of the medicine, hunting, and dance songs. 

 Fifteen dictaphone records were taken and have been deposited with 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Some of the hunting and protection songs are of considerable artistic 

 value; the Cherokee sing with a high-pitched falsetto voice, and with 

 all the singers heard, a peculiar nasal twang was noticed. 



When the formulas are recited the medicine man mumbles them 

 under his breath, and at a very fast tempo, so that neither the patient 

 nor any one of his household manages to catch a single word. 



