OlbrecIts] the swimmer MANUSCRIPT 285 



The medicine man makes the rather startHng assertion that the 

 crying of the child is due to the fact that seven fairy clans are playing 

 a ball game in its stomach, and he calls upon the Red Man to swoop 

 down upon them like a hawk upon its prey and drive them out into 

 the Night Land . 



The Red Man is probably the Thunder, and this would explain the 

 reference to "the noise as of thunder" with which he takes them out 

 west. 



The medicine consists of an infusion of tso"'laGay9*'li, Nicotiana 

 rustica L., wild tobacco, blown over the body of the child for four 

 consecutive nights. Any feathers in the house must be put outside 

 during the course of the treatment, and the child itself should be kept 

 indoors for the four days during which the treatment lasts. These 

 precautions are taken, as the medicine man stated, because the 

 disease closely resembles GQ*Vanf'Gtst9"'.i,^® another children's com- 

 plaint, which is beheved to be caused by the birds, and which may 

 be communicated from their feathers or from their shadow falling 

 upon the child as they fly overhead. 



Ay. could not explain the restriction with regard to the articles of 

 skin, since this is one of the Ut. formulas. 



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untyo*'t'8GisGQ''[.i "] a'Da*nQ*Vo*tT Waf 



Whenever they have an to cure anyone with this 



itching 



u^naste'H-s'tf'Ga i;*ndt"t^asti*-yi' | Go°"t*oti' DiDzo''t*a.€''U» 



root, little they must drink it, E. to be used with it it must be blown 



on them, 



GWO'^ 

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o-'ya Dalo'^ntGe*"' (4 times). 



(Fire) yellow 



Sharply! 



o*'ya (4 times). 



(Fire) 



tci'stu Dalo'^DtGe"''' {4 times). 



Rabbit yellow 



*ya^ 



Sharplyl 



tct'stu (4 times). 



Rabbit 



2^ When they (i. e., the birds) eat them (the children). 

 37 Emendation by editor. 



