308 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 99 



This is the Medicine When They Urinate Milky (Substance) 



FKEE TRANSLATION 



Black gum (and) alder steeped with it, warm; they must drink 

 it all day; the second (day, until) noon; and the third (day until) 

 noon has not completed itself; the fourth (day), let them eat along 

 with the others; restricted (are during) four nights hot (food) and salt; 

 (intercourse between) the man and the woman is very bad. 



^ explanation 



The characteristic symptoms of this sickness were given as a dis- 

 charge of milky urine, preceded or accompanied by frequent dis- 

 charges of dark red urine, together with pains in the lower part of 

 the back and pelvic region, and perspiration about the private parts. 

 It is considered a more serious form of urinary disease than any 

 previously mentioned. The patient drinks a warm infusion of the 

 inner bark of unt'^kwa, Nyssa multiflora Wang., black gum; ttse'U, 

 Alnus rugosa (Du Roi) Spreng., smooth alder, the bark being taken 

 from the root just above the ground on the east side of the tree. 

 The patient drinks the medicine at intervals [ad libitum] during the 

 whole of the first day, until noon on the second day, until about 10 

 a. m. the third day, and until just before breakfast the fourth day, 

 which completes the course of treatment. 



The taboo includes salt, hot food, and sexual intercourse. 



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!tV yu^Da'N!t€"'ks5° a'skwani.GO"'to.tf-yi' | !t"aGwo°' na'm- 



this if a tooth comes oil to store it up with, E this, L they have 



we'skg-'.i | Do-'jd sktN'tS"' (4 times) 



been said (liab) beaver put a tootli 



into my (jaw) 



This is, When a Tooth Comes Out, to Throw it Away With 



FKEE TRANSLATION 



This is all that has to be said: "Beaver, put a tooth into my 

 jaw!" (4 times). 



explanation 



The knowledge of this bit of folklore was first obtained [by Mr. 

 Mooney] through a j'^oung mixed blood from the Cherokee Nation in 

 the west, who said that when, in early childhood, his milk teeth were 

 being replaced by permanent teeth his Cherokee mother had told 

 him to throw the loosened teeth upon ^^ the roof of the house, asking 

 the beaver at the same time to give him a new one instead. He could 

 not remember the details, but on asking Ay. about the matter he at 



