LITERARY ASPECTS OF NORTH AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY. 
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He had gone headlong into the water, ‘tcu.’ In a moment he 
made himself become a stone beneath the water. And they went 
homeward, having failed in attacking him. . . .** 
(In the second version Haxige is not pursued at all). 
The role of the old woman, which is so important in Holy 
One, has become changed in the following manner in Haxige: 
“Haxige departed. At length there was an aged beaver- 
woman making a boat. ‘Hu,’ said she, ‘there is a very strong 
Haxige odor.’ ‘Old woman, there is no cause for complaint, as 
his brother was killed by the water-spirits, that Haxige is wander- 
ing around at random and is killing himself by crying,’ said he. 
‘Old woman, are you not indeed making a boat ?’ said Haxige. 
‘Yes. Have you not been hearing it up to this time ?’ said the 
old woman. ‘As his younger brother was killed, Haxige killed 
two of the chief water-monsters; and as they have failed to kill 
him, they have threatened to make the whole earth full of water. 
And I am making a dug-out for myself,’ said she. He said as 
follows: ‘Old woman, Haxige ever wishes to have an abundance 
of sense. He has made a dug-out and if he pile up wood at the 
bow, filling the bottom with earth, he will sit by a fire blazing 
very brightly; and, seizing the animals that come floating along, 
he will continue eating them.’ ‘Even if they fail so, they speak 
of making an abundance of snakes on the earth,’ said the old 
woman. ‘He will put shells of red-breasted turtles on his feet 
and will cover his hands in like manner. So when the snakes come 
to bite, having made a thick skin for himself, he will continue to 
crush in their heads by treading on them.’ . . . ‘Even if 
they fail so, they threaten to make darkness over the whole earth. 
They say that if he get himself in a gorge unawares, he will die 
from the fall,’ said the old woman. . . . ‘Old woman, when 
he sits in a gorge and fills it with wood, he will sit by a very good 
fire. What animal reaches him by leaping, will lie dead from the 
fall, and he will take it and sit eating it.’ ‘Even if they fail so, 
they threaten to make a deep snow over the whole earth. They 
say that he will die from the snow that will press down on him,’ 
said she. ‘Having made a very large grass-lodge, he will make a 
very high pile of wood for himself, and then he will make snow- 
shoes. What animals get buried unawares in the deep snow, 
