BELIEFS AJ^D SUPERSTITIONS. 135 



Ha' 1 shma-htchdktak yainatat, kd-i 1 un k^sh sbld-etak; ha'-atoks 



If yoa let your shadow fall on the hill, not you ipo will find ; hnt If 



1 kd-i shma-htch4ktak, tu'm 1 un k^sh shl^-etak. 



yon not let yonr shadow fall, much you ipo will find. 



M6atuash, k'le-ugtkiudpkasht tchlalash M6atuasham k6ketat, kd-i mliu' 3 



The Pit River (leat) wonM cease to come the salmon np the Pit Kiver, not gronses 



Indians, 



luela sk6 ; Mo'dokni tchi'sh 161a shudtasli kfam tchflkd shdtma, humdsht= 



they kill in spring the Modocs also assnme, nnge-hens the fish to swim np invite, there- 



time ; etreiun 



gisht kd-i luela. 



lore not they kill 



(them). 



IJI^OTES. 



I. What is contained in these short items refers equally to the Klamath Lake and 

 to the Modoc people, although those contained under I. were obtained from various 

 informants belonging to the former chieftaincy. 



133, 2. p4ka to howl, bark; pAk'la to howl repeatedly, to howl for a while; pAk- 

 Inipka to howl for a while in the distance towards somebody. 



133, 4. 5. The cat and the chicken being but recently introduced among these tribes, 

 this superstition must have been trnusferred to them from other animals. By inver- 

 sion, the words tchikiu gu'lu, the hen, appear here widely sepai'ated from each other. 



133, 6. Kii-i tchiimlftk has to be resolved into : ku-i tche m^l (for m41ash) hu'k : 

 "bad then for you this is!" Gruel tights will follow. 



133, 7-11. This story is not clearly worded, but we are taught by it how these 

 ludians are couversiug among each other with laconic breviloquence. An Indian living 

 in the vicinity has heard the w billing of the dog which means death to his owner. He 

 goes there, shoots the man and takes tu his heels. A relative of the murdered man 

 comes up and is mistaken by others for the murderer. They deprive him of his wife, 

 his property and his liberty; he becomes a madman on account of the injustice done 

 to him. 



134, 1. 2. The raveu (kiik) is supposed to1)e a bird of fatal augury, because he was 

 seen devouring the flesh of dead Indians. Compare : General Hote on page 130. 



134, 4. kiukayunk. Tliey adjust a rag or j)iece of skin to a pole and stick out 

 that improvised ^rtr/ on the top of the lodge to notify neighbors that they had a dream 

 last night and desire an interpreter for it. 



134, 5. One of the legs of a dead black tmelhak-squirrel is cut off and laid under 

 the gaming-disk or the pii'lila to insure luck to the player. 



134, 7-12. Tchashasli etc. This is a fragmentary extract of a scurrilous skunk- 

 myth, which I have not been able to obtain in full from my informant, the Modoc chief 

 Johnson, who speaks the Klamath dialect. This myth is well known through the 

 whole of Oregon, for parts of it are embodied in a popular and melodious song of the 

 Molale tribe, whose ancient home is the country east and southeast of Oregon City 

 and Portland. 



134, 7. 8. mdklaks nanuk is the direct object of hushtsdga ; the skunk kiUed them 

 by his stench. 



134, 9. tii'paks stands for tii'pakshash ; tupakship, abbreviated tupaksh, is pro- 

 perly the younger sister, as called by or with reference to an elder brother, while pa-^nip 



