HOW THE WITCH-WOMAN WAS KILLED. IIt5 
It seems that the old woman knew that the child was born under the 
protection of some minor god in the heavens. She disliked the child, 
and so one beautiful morning the old woman went to the creek, picked 
up a clam and said: ‘‘I want you to take my place as the Witch-Woman 
and travel with these people wherever they go. I will remain behind, 
for I want to take the child away from its parents.’’ Witch-Woman 
blew her breath upon the clam shell. She turned into an old woman 
with a very wrinkled face. She was left in the place of Witch-Woman. 
The next morning before daylight the real Witch went into the tipi 
of White-Moccasins. She took the little child upon her back and went 
out of the lodge. She went to the Witch-Woman and said: ‘‘ You must 
remain here and if the people move away follow them. You are in my 
place. I shall go far away with this child, so that in time I may kill the 
child and it will never know that it had a father and a mother.”’ 
The Witch-Woman carried the little boy far away to where the sun 
rises. The people in the village missed the child. The parents went 
throughout the village hunting their child. Everybody turned out, but 
they could not find the child. The people all began to mourn. They 
-mourned so much that some of them would tear down their tipis and 
move away. The people kept moving away from their village until only 
White-Moccasins and his immediate family were left behind. The peo- 
ple were now scattered all over the land. 
The real Witch-Woman carried the boy far away. They came to a 
big water and stopped there. Here the Witch-Woman built a grass- 
house and made a garden. The boy and the woman remained in that 
place for a number of years. The boy grew to be large, and the Witch- 
Woman made a bow and some arrows for him. The boy went out hunt- 
ing every day and brought in game. He believed that this old woman 
was his mother, for she called him her son. The woman saw that the 
boy had grown up and that he had many wonderful ways about him. 
She told the boy not to go far to the west; that wild animals would find 
him and devour him. 
One day while the boy was out playing with his bow and arrows he 
saw a Crow sitting upon a tree. The Crow began to cry out and the boy 
heard what it said. The boy thought that the Crow said: “‘Boy, you 
do not belong here. Your people live west from here. Their village 
site is beyond here.’’ The boy did not pay any attention to the words 
of the Crow, but the Crow said: ‘“‘I saw that woman take you away. 
I know all about it. You do not belong here. There are many people 
out west where you belong.’’ The boy paid no attention to this. The 
next day he went out hunting. When he came to a timbered country 
