Olbrechts] the swimmer MANUSCRIPT 289 



This is the Medicine (for) Their Head 



FREE TRANSLATION 



This has to be sung: 



Ha-yi! The Men, the Wizards have gone by, 

 They have caused relief. 



Under the earth they have gone by. 

 As they went they Hfted the disease up. 

 They have caused reUef. 



The Little Wizards 



Have gone by under the earth. 



As they went they lifted the disease up. 



They have caused relief. Sharply! 



Now, then! The Red Men have gone by. They have forced their 

 way through the center of his body. They have come to scatter the 

 important thing. They have caused rehef. Sharply! 



Now, then! Now, the Purple Men have gone by on high. They 

 have come to scatter the important thing. They have caused relief. 

 Sharply! 



EXPLANATION 



The medicine used with this headache formula is [ordinary chewingl 

 tobacco, with a little ginseng {Panax trifolium L.) root, [if availablel. 

 These are chewed by the medicine man and the juice is blown upon 

 [the forehead, the temples, the crown of] the head and the back of 

 the neck of the patient. 



The medicine man stands erect while singing the preliminary song. 

 He then recites the first paragraph of the formula and blows the juice 

 on the patient four times. This is repeated after the second para- 

 graph, and the whole ceremony may be repeated. As usual, the 

 patient sits facing the east. In most headache formulas the ceremony 

 is about the same. 



[The Red Men and the Purple Men mentioned belong probably to 

 the class of the "Little People." (See p. 25.)] 



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this bead(s) to look at 



them with 



sGe" I *a-'no-Gwo"' 'a't'Qga'nt-Ga' yQ'wi' Gan^o*i-'D8 



Now, then ha, Now thou hast come to human long 



listen being 



tsotlto't'sti I Go'u'sti tsani;*'lti n^Ge'^SQ-na' | 'lye-'l-ast-Q*'' 



thou art staying something thou failest never thy body, edge, 



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nQ-'noH' De-'tstGaso-"o°'t*a'ni-Ga' | otGa'skJo-'Gi tsime-'GO a^N!9- 



trail(s), Loc I have come to bring them down they chairs they white it cloth 



wa'Gi unf'Ga a'ltl9"'t'ani*Ga' *^ | sQ*ntk't*a tsunf'Ga 



it white it (kn.) has come to Ue beads they white 



on it 



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