THE CODE OF HANDSOME LAKE Jl 



" Then said the four messengers to Ganiodai'io', ' That being is 

 the punisher. It is he who torments those who have refused the 

 words of Gai'wiio' when they heard them on the earth.' ' 



So they said. Eniaiehuk. 



section 102 



" In a loud voice the punisher cried to a certain person saying, 

 ' Come hither.' The punisher held a drinking vessel in his hand 

 and within it was molten metal and thrusting it in the hands of the 

 man he had called he said, ' Now warm yourself again as was your 

 custom while on the earth for you loved hot drink.' Now the man 

 pleaded but the punisher compelled him to swallow the molten 

 metal. Then the man screamed in a loud voice and fell prone upon 

 the ground with vapor steaming from his throat. Now he cried 

 no more. 



" Then said the four messengers, ' You have seen the manner of 

 punishing those who persist in taking the fiery drink.' ' : 



So they said. Eniaiehuk. 



section 103 



" Now as they looked the master of the house spoke saying, 

 ' Come.' Now the master knew the name of every one within the 

 house. And straightway a woman came to where he stood. Then 

 he grabbed her and forced her body into a great cauldron filled with 

 a boiling liquid. Frequently he looked down into the cauldron to 

 see if the woman had come again to the top. Suddenly she shot 

 to the surface crying in a strange voice like some unknown animal 

 and then sank down again. Soon again she appeared and cried, 

 ' O, it is too hot ! I should have an interval in which to cool my- 

 self ! ' Answered the punisher, ' Thou are not one-minded,' and 

 jerking her out he flung her on one side. But the woman screeched 

 in agony, ' O, it is too cold ! ' and her complaint was continuous 

 and she moaned, ' It is too cold ! ' Then the punisher thrust her 

 back into the boiling cauldron and immediately her bones rattled to 

 the bottom. Such was the punishment given by the keeper of the 

 house of torment. 



" Then spoke the four messengers and said, ' This is the punish- 

 ment given those who practice witchcraft. The woman whom you 

 saw will suffer two deaths in this place and when her body is re- 

 duced to dust the punisher will gather them up again and conjure 

 the dust back into a living body and continue his sport until finally 



