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Dawt'skula' or Flint is personified in Cherokee mythology as a 

 terrible and an aggressive individual, the dreaded enemy of all the 

 mythic animal world because it was with flint that man pointed his 

 deadly arrows. [Cf. Mooney, Myths, pp. 234, 274, 451.1 He is here 

 represented as advancing threateningly shaking his red walking sticks. 



The final paragraph is recited only when the preceding ones fail to 

 produce any effect. It is sometimes recited at the house immedi- 

 ately after the others, but usually the medicine man goes down to the 

 stream for this purpose, using the beads during the recital, in the 

 manner described elsewhere, in order to learn from their motions 

 whether the child is alive or dead. The medicine man stated that 

 it was not always possible to ascertain this by the ordinary means. The 

 bead ceremony is sometimes repeated seven times, the rest only once. 



After having recited this paragraph at the water he returns to the 

 house and repeats it without the beads, while standing by the side 

 of the mother-to-be. According to the medicine man's statement, 

 the result is always successful. 



The final paragraph resembles the formulas used when "going to 

 water" described in other places. The cloth referred to is perhaps 

 the cloth upon which the beads are placed during the ceremony [or 

 may be the cloth which used to be spread out for the child to faU 

 upon. (See p. 124.)] 



77 



a'a' li'lsta'y'ti' v'thyu'kt^ano'H a'Da^ng^'wo'tT 



this it is eaten it has changed itself to cure anyone with 



SGe'* I aGaWe-'la i;'''yukt'ano'*i G€Se-'(.i ^^) a'ctsti' G€*'t'A= 

 now the Old Woman has changed it it is, App it (Sol) to eat within 



then 



GQ'' i;t*5'°se*.i' 



it has grown, 

 App 



(a) SGe'* I Gi'td' wo'^DtGe-' nQ-'no'-yi-'-Dza Galg-'ldi 



now Dog brown sun, Loc, direction above 



then 



tso'tlt'o't'sti u'sonv'li tSa''"WlltSf'l8 ^^ De''aDo''o°'t'a'nt-Ga' I 

 thou art staying quickly thy saliva thou hast come to let them down 



a'Gtsti' Ge''t*AG9*' ut*o°so°' I *a^-no*GWo"' t'a*'seso"t-Ga' | 



it (sol) to within it has grown, ha, now thou hast come and 



eat App pulled it out 



tS0H}sta''y'tt-GW0"' Ge'Sf'(.i^^) | DttSckW0"'li De*'Ga'a'Dani,SO'= 



it what thou eatest, L it is, App thy stomachs they have come to 



o°'t'ant*Ga' I niG9'Vaye"'l8.no°'o°'sG€-'stt-Gwo"' tsa'^losg*' | 



bury themselves a likeness of it will be left, L thou passed, T L 



in it 



utst*'-nawa^ nu'^Dat^ang-'Da no°"t*9'ne*'lt*Ga' j 'iya' 



beyond it, it has been said thou hast come to do it Sharply 



stretched simultaneously for him 



** Emendation by editor. 



^ Emendation by J, M.j instead of Dv^yvatsi-'\B=his saliva. 



