It4 TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
The next day the people were told that the young man had been there 
and that they were promised some Buffalo at a certain place. They sent 
several of the young men to the place to see. When they went they 
found the Buffalo sitting in a ravine. They went back and reported. 
The people got ready, went out, and surrounded the Buffalo and killed 
all the Buffalo. Most of them were sacrificed to Tirawa. 
The young man took the things to the Buffalo people and they were 
thankful. Then the Buffalo people said: ‘‘You will now send more 
Buffalo.”” The young man took another bunch of Buffalo to the people 
and they killed this bunch, and the young man returned and received 
another bunch of Buffalo. Four times the young man brought Buffalo 
to the village. Then the Buffalo scattered over the country. One time 
when the people attacked the Buffalo they unknowingly killed the Buffalo 
who had once beena man. They consecrated him, and then they found 
out that he had been a man, because the hide that they took off had 
feathers all over it. 
29. HOW THE WITCH-WOMAN WAS KILLED.* 
There was a village of people and on the east side lived alone a 
Witch-Woman. She had no children. Sometimes she cured people 
when they were sick. At other times she was very mean to people and 
would let them die of disease. Sometimes she took some of her medi- 
cine, sat in her lodge, and threw the medicine into the air. The medicine 
would fly through the air and would enter into the people and kill them. 
On account of these tricks the people called her Witch-Woman. 
In the village was a wonderful man known as White-Moccasins. A 
child was born in his family and it was a boy. The women in the village 
were very fond of this child. Each morning one woman would come 
into the lodge and pack the little child around on her back. After she 
became tired another woman would be ready to carry the child. Every 
day the child was taken out of the lodge, but the parents knew that it 
was safe. One morning a young girl came into the lodge and took the 
child out. After she became tired she gave the child to another woman. 
A woman came near where the women were. This woman looked at 
the child and went on. The women looked at her and they knew that 
it was Witch-Woman. They said nothing to the parents of the child. 
1Told by Leading-Sun, Kitkehahki. The tale marks the end of the life of a 
group of supernatural beings who had been dreaded and feared and who were held 
responsible for many troubles, including sickness, etc. The connection of the 
story with the sacred bundle is not at first evident, but it is to be noted that the 
Witch-Woman was killed by the Hawk, who was the special guardian of the war- 
riors, a skin of a hawk being always present in the warrior’s bundle. 
