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(19) Never touch a caterpillar or sores will break out on your body. 
(20) Do not throw away any of your hair; a snake or a bird may take it for its 
nest and make you ill. 
(21) Do not mar the body purposely (e.g. by tattooing, or by piercing the ears 
for ear-rings) ; if you do a snake, a fox, a bat, or some other evil manido will 
find you out. 
(22) Do not pass between the sun and the fire. If you do, throw away any food 
that may be cooking on the fire. 
(23) Do not use poplar for any purpose, unless for certain medicines. 
(24) Do not talk while birch bark is being stitched on a canoe. 
(25) Do not tell stories in summer or a toad will come and sleep with you. 
(26) Do not climb among the branches of the trees, or play from one rope to 
another for you are likely to entangle all your powers. 
(27) Children must not eat the fat from boiled bones or they will have sore legs. 
(28) Children must not eat fresh ripe berries, or their teeth will ache in later life. 
They must not eat the roe or the heads of suckers, or certain soft parts in the 
head of the sturgeon, 
(29) Children must not string berries, or the birds will quickly eat all the berries 
on the bushes. 
(30) Children must not use fire or live coals when playing with a dog or there 
will be a snowstorm and cold weather. 
(31) Children must not play with a war-club, for if they stuck it into the ground 
it would drive away all the manidos that live beneath. 
(32) Young boys, before their fasting period, must not eat the brains of any animal, 
or their own brains will be extracted after death by a big man who dwells along 
the road that leads to the land of the dead. 
(33) Young boys must not eat the tongues of animals, or their own tongues will 
hang out from loss of breath when they run. 
(34) Young boys must not eat the marrow of bones, or their legs will frequently 
falter and make them stumble. 
(35) Young boys must not eat the head or the hind legs of the rabbit, because the 
rabbit habitually shakes its hind legs as if it has cramp, and the boy in later 
life would suffer from frequent cramps. 
(36) Young boys must not eat the meat of the first deer or other animal they kill, 
or they will become poor hunters. 
We may append to this list of taboos a few curious superstitions: 
The hog-nosed snake ( Heterodon contortrix ) poisons the air with its breath. Keep 
to windward of it. “ I was poisoned by a hog-nosed snake when I was a baby, but a 
kusabindugeyu discovered the cause of my sickness and cured me ” (Pegahmagabow). 
The bite of the fox-snake ( Elaphe vulpina) is poisonous, often causing death 
(N.B. This snake is quite harmless). 
In a sturgeon’s body there is a bone that has the same shape as the sturgeon. 
If you place it in the water it will change into a sturgeon. 
The cricket and the tiny hair snake that lives in the water are the same animal. 
If a man inadvertently swallow a hair snake, it will grow inside his body to the length 
of 2 or 3 feet. 
Wasp stings will cure rheumatism. A boy stung by wasps will grow into a healthy 
man. 
Swinging a bull-roarer brings a north wind and cold weather. 
The faithful observance of the established taboos safeguarded the Indian 
from offending the souls and shadows of the animals that provided his daily 
food, and from displeasing the incorporeal spirits that surrounded him on 
every hand. It could not protect him against the unknowable “ accidents ” 
of life, the unprovoked attacks of evil manidos , or of human enemies open 
or concealed. Nevertheless, just as he often saw in nature indications of 
the meteorological phenomena that would shortly happen, so also he could 
