214 nUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Uull. 09 



This (is) lo Tuioat Them with (for) Worms 



FHlflE TllANSLATION 



No\: then! Ha, now tliou hast como to Hstcn, thou Old Wliito 

 One. The body has been made very painful; it is pregnant with 

 (weakness?). 



(a) Now then! Ha, now thou hast come to listen, thou White 

 Bittern, thou real wizard, sta3dng on high. Ila, quiclcly they have come 

 to let thee down to where the marsh is. Quickly they have made thee 

 look atit, as thouweiitst by. Thouhastcome to stick thy bill undcrit. 

 The important thing wliicli he has put under liim is merely a worm. 

 Thou hast come to i)ull it out; it is indeed the very thing thou eatest. 

 It shall bury itself into thy stomach; they have made thee insatiable 

 (?). It has happened so; relief has been caused at the same time; 

 thou hast come and done it for him; *^ only a mere likeness of it "^ 

 will remain. 



(b) Now then! Ha, now thou hast come to listoTi, thou White 

 Sandpiper, etc. 



(c) Now then! Ha, now thou hast come to listen, thou Wliite 

 Mud Snipe, etc. 



(And add at end:) Relief lias been caused. 



This (is) to treat them with (for) worms. To treat with, Indian 

 pink, mixed with honey, should be given them to drink. First it 

 should be given them to drink, then it should merely be rubbed on 

 them. 



EXPLANATION 



This formula, which seems to have lost [its fourth paragraph], is 

 for the treatJiient of intestinal worms. These betray their presence 

 by the following symi)toms: yellowness of the patient's skin, redness 

 of the fingertips, fever and diarrhea. 



The medicine is a decoction of Gi-'oaGf" a'DZfl5"'ski\ Spigelia 

 marilandica L., Indian pink, sweetened with honey, to be drunk both 

 night and morning for four days, or until the wonns are dislodged. 

 If this result should not follow within that period, the medicine man 

 tries a difreront jnedicine or concludes that the sickness is due to 

 some other cause. 



In ai)])lying the trealnient, the medicine jiinn first gives the medi- 

 cine to the patient to drink, thcji warms his hands over the fire, wliilo 

 addressing "tlie Old Wiiite One," and then rubs the abdomen of tlio 

 patient with his hands thus warmed, reciting in the meanwhile the 

 second part of the formula, addressed to the bird. Tiie final rub 

 witli both hands is in a downward direction, along the abdomen, 

 ty])ical of the downward passage of the expelled worms. In conclu- 

 sion, he blows four times upon the stomach of the sick man. TJie 



»» The patient. «* The disease. 



