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It appears that the Windigo was very angry at having eaten his 
grandmother. Now she was running down-hill; as she climbed the next 
rise, there down below was the iron house. When she looked behind her, 
already she saw the Windigo coming; then really she fled wdth all her 
might. When she reached it, she forgot the instruction she had been given 
by the old woman whom she had killed. 
“Open the door for me! Both-Side-Eyes wants to kill me, big brother!” 
she cried. 
Although she called in all manner of ways, he was even about to seize 
her, when she remembered what the old woman had told her. 
“Big brother,” she cried again, “open the door for me!” she cried; 
“Both-Side-Face wants to kill me!” she cried. 
The door of the iron house swung open. She went in. She saw those 
who had their dwelling inside there, a young woman and a young man. 
Then the young woman said to her, “Sister-in-law, sit down!” 
Soon with noise the Windigo arrived outside. 
“Open for me, Iron-House -Dweller!” he cried. 
Then the young man opened the door and chopped off the Windigo’s 
head. 
Then the young woman stayed there. For that young woman and 
that man were very good to her. Then in time, they gave her something to 
keep in the bosom-fold of her garment, to give her manitou power. And 
really, she had great strength; she too had now manitou power. Then 
they made men’s clothes, which she put on, ********** 
Then really, she went about hunting. 
Then at one time they said to her, ‘ Wour brothers miss you very much. 
They are suffering greatly; you ought to try to see them,” they told her; 
“Now, not far from here you will come to a hill. There you will see a very 
large tipi. He who lives there is intent on tormenting people; he builds 
a nest from which he jumps on people. That place is full of people who 
suffer from all kinds of injuries, since that evil person who lives there 
breaks different parts of their bodies as he comes down on them,” they 
told her; “This is the only difficulty, but, after all, he takes only young 
women; he pays no attention to men. As soon as he sees you, he will 
say to you, “******************” 
they told her; “That is what he will say to you.” 
When the young woman had been instructed, she went out of the 
house, taking provision for the journey. She set out. Presently, just as 
the day had reached noon, she saw the place. Although she walked far 
round to avoid it, she must have been seen by that evil man who all day 
jumped down on young women, taking pleasure in tormenting them. 
When he had come and met her, he said to her, “***** 
So it seemed he was her cousin. *********** 
“ ‘My male cousin,’ I have been calling her; why it is Burnt-Stick!” 
Thereupon she secretly took up a stick of saskatoon wood; she used 
it as a cane. He led her home by the hand and took her into his tipi. 
And there she saw nothing but young women whose bodies were broken in 
every way from having been jumped upon. 
These young women said, “Only to think that we, too, were as beauti- 
ful as this young woman!” Thus spoke those crippled ones. 
