Olbrechts] the swimmer MANUSCRIPT 173 



(that very thing) for him. Ha, thou hast taken it away to the 

 Night Land, to remain. It will never return. Relief has been caused 

 at the same time. 



(b) Now then! Ha, now thou hast come to listen, Red Raven; 

 they have placed thee above (etc.). 



(c) Now then! Ha, now thou hast come to listen, Blue Raven; 

 they have placed thee above (etc.). 



(d) Now then! Ha, now thou hast come to listen. White Raven; 

 they have placed thee above, toward the south (etc.). 



This is the medicine when they are sick with sharp pains. For 

 sucking, the flowers of old tobacco are to be used. They are just to 

 be held in the month (i. e., chewed), and wild parsnip and the small 

 tobaccolike (plant), they along with it. 



And if anything be mixed with it (i. e., with the saliva, after 

 sucking), it should be put down into the mud, as far as an overhand 

 (deep). 



EXPLANATION 



[This formula is the one edited under another caption (tsy'nda- 

 ye-'ltGO'kt'ano'H a'na'nQ-'wo'tT), "the medicine (for) when they 

 simulate (a real sickness)," by Mooney in his SFC, pp. 366-369.1 



21 *tV PQ-'wo-fi' tsi;-niyo-H'oGt.a' | 



this to cure with they have them itching 



i;ni'stdo°.i'sti-Gwo"' so.i'(-n!5"^^) ustf'oa' i;D0''t9GWUDD°' 



they came to sticlc to— L othcr-and it small all day 



yndt^'t'a.sti' I na.'skt-Gwo"' m'ca- q' \ Ga'^t'g'DS" 



they must drink it this— L all it restricted 



aGO-'no° I 



completely 



This is to Cure With, When They Have Them Itching 



FREE TRANSLATION 



Merely the "they-make-them-stick-to-it" (-plant) and (also) the 

 other small (variety). They must drink it all day. And this is all 

 there is to it. The injunction is, fasting. 



explanation 



As this formula, like all the others, was written by the medicine 

 man to assist his own memory, rather than to give any explicit infor- 

 mation to the outside world, the wording is indefinite, as regards both 



w Interpolation by editor. 



