238 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY tBuix. 99 



This is the Medicine for Their Sides 



FREE TRANSLATION 



Ha-ha-yi! Sharply! 



All night it has been in it (?) (4 times). 



Ha-ha-yi! Sharply! 



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

 staying in the Sun Land, Red Man, thou powerful mzard! The red 

 switches have become bundled in thy hands, roughly thou hast come 

 and picked them up. Quickly hast thou come and put the important 

 thing on its feet. Relief has been caused. 



Ha-ha-yi! Sharply! 



All night it has been in it (?) 



Ha-ha-yi! Sharply! 



Now, then! It is merely si;"sa that has put the important thing 

 under him; it is merely f'nzalf'.i. 



(b) Now, then! Ha, now you two in your turn have come to listen, 

 you Two Little Red Men, you are staying in the Sun Land, you 

 powerful mzards. Quicldy you have arisen, facing this way. The 

 red smtches have become bundled in your hands, roughly you have 

 come and picked them up. The important thing has gotten up forth- 

 with, you have come to do it for him ; his paths \nll stretch out toward 

 the Night Land, never again he will look back; you have come and 

 done it for him. You have taken him to the Night Land, and have 

 put him there to stay, after you had forced him to let go liis hold. 

 Relief will be caused constantly. 



H a-ha-yi ! Sharply ! 

 Relief by rubbing (?). 



Ha-ha-yi! Sharply! 



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Now, then! Ha, it is merely su*sa that has put the important thing 

 under him; it is merely e'DZali'.i. 



(c) Now, then! Ha, now, you two in your turn have come to listen, 

 you two Little Blue Men, you are staying in the Cold Land. The 

 blue switches have become bundled in your hands {etc., as in (b)). 

 Sharply! 



EXPLANATION 



This is for treating a pain in the side. The medicine man from 

 whom it was obtained could assign no particular cause for the sickness 

 but another practitioner declared that it was due to tc*sko*'ya or 

 insects which might have been put into the sick man's body by a 

 hostile conjurer. In accordance with this theory the second medicine 

 man called upon the birds to come and eat the [insects]. 



Neither of them could explain the words su'sa or eDZalri, the names 

 given to the disease spirit [see p. 232, nor could any of the medicine 



