458 MEDICINE-MEN OF THE APACHE. 
the Apache there is no priest caste; the same man may be priest, war- 
rior, ete.! 
“The juice of the Datura seed is employed by the Portuguese women 
of Goa: they mix it, says Linschott, in the liquor drank by their hus- 
bands, who fall, for twenty-four hours at least, into a stupor accom- 
panied by continued laughing; but so deep is the sleep that nothing 
passing before them affects them; and when they recover their senses, 
they have no recollection of what has taken place.” ” 
“The Darien Indians used the seeds of the Datura sanguinea to bring 
on in children prophetic delirium, in which they revealed hidden treas- 
ure. In Peru the priesfs who talked with the “huaca” or fetishes used 
to throw themselves into an ecstatic condition by a narcotic drink called 
“tonea,” made from the same plant.” * 
The medicine-men of the Walapai, according to Charlie Spencer, who 
married one of their women and lived among them for years, were in 
the habit of casting bullets in molds which contained a small piece of 
paper. They would allow these bullets to be fired at them, and of 
course the missile would split in two parts and do no injury. Again, 
they would rolia ball of sinew and attach one end to a small twig, 
which was inserted between the teeth. They would then swallow the 
ball of sinew, excepting the end thus attached to the teeth, and after 
the heat and moisture of the stomach had softened and expanded the 
sinew they would begin to draw it out yard after yard, saying to the 
frightened squaws that they had no need of intestines and were going 
to pull them all out. Others among the Apache have claimed the 
power to shoot off guns without touching the triggers or going near the 
weapons; to be able to kill or otherwise harm their enemies at a dis- 
tance of 100 miles. In nearly every boast made there is some sort of a 
saving clause, to the effect that no witchcraft must be made or the 
spell will not work, no women should be near in a delicate state from 
any cause, etc. 
Mickey Free has assured ine that he has seen an Apache medicine- 
man light a pipe without doing anything but hold his hands up toward 
the sun. This story is credible enough if we could aver that the medi- 
cine-man was supplied, as I suspect he was, with a burning glass. 
That the medicine-man has the faculty of transforming himself into a 
coyote and other animals at pleasure and then resuming the human 
form is as implicitly believed in by the American Indians as it was by 
our own forefathers in Europe. This former prevalence of lycanthropy 
all over Europe can be indicated in no more forcible manner than by 
stating that until the reign of Louis XIV, in France, the fact of being 
a were-wolf was a crime upon which one could be arraigned before a 
court; but with the discontinuance of the crime the were-wolves them- 
1 Spencer, Ecclesiastical Institutions, cap. Vv. 
2 Salverte, Philosophy of Magic, vol. 2, pp. 6-7. 
4 Tylor. Primitive Culture, London, 1871, vol. 2, p. 377. 
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