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rats in two.’ 'Grandson, are you not the Holy One ?’ she said. 
'How can I be the Holy One, grandmother ?’ he answered. 
‘Grandmother, is that all they will do ?’ ‘Yes, except that I 
will be one of those to chew through the boat.’ ‘Grandmother, 
you are quite old to do that. How are your teeth ? Won’t 
you show them to me?’ 'Well, grandson, my teeth are thus,' 
she said and, closing her eyes and opening her mouth very wide, 
she showed him her teeth. He then took his bow and struck her 
in the mouth, knocking out her teeth and killing her. Then 
she fell to the ground an old female muskrat.” 
As a last example of the second method we will quote from 
“The Man who visited the Thunderbirds.” 
“He took the trail of his brothers and followed it till he came 
to two camps, a small and a large one. He entered the first one 
and found a very old woman sitting there As soon as she saw 
him, she addressed him thus: ‘My poor grandchild, sit down 
here, I am very sorry for you.’ And then she went on to tell 
him what had happened to his sister and brothers. She told 
him that the person who had been talking to his sister the last 
time was a bad spirit; but that the sister had mistaken him for 
the father of her child and had accompanied him to his camp. 
However, he was not the father of her child, as she afterward 
found out. All his brothers had been killed by this bad spirit 
and she did not believe that he, the youngest, would escape their 
fate. The old woman then proceeded to tell him that his sister 
was by this time so completely under the influence of this bad 
spirit that she was as bad as he and preferred to help her husband 
rather than her brother. 
“ ‘Now, listen, my grandchild. The first thing that the bad 
spirit will ask you to do to-night will be to prepare a sweatbath 
for him, and in order to do that he will tell you to fetch a certain 
stone. That stone belongs to him and was put there for a certain 
purpose. Just as you touch it, it will begin to roll down hill 
and you will roll with it. That is how some of your brothers met 
their death. Now, you just take a pole, walk up the opposite 
side of the hill, touch the stone with the pole, and it will then roll 
down the hill. As soon as it has stopped rolling, you can pick it 
