118 TRUE STORIES OF THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. 
breast. He did not carry the scalp nor the war club. He left thesein 
another bundle. He led the war party. They found the camp of the 
enemy, attacked the village, killed two enemies, took their scalps, and 
captured many ponies. When the war party returned to the village 
the people turned out to receive them. The chief then invited the 
young man to his tipi. The young man said: “‘No; I can not go there.” 
When the young man had gone on the war-path four times, and was 
successful each time, he said to his father: ‘‘It is not yet time for me 
to take a woman for my wife. I have to make four buffalo holy and 
take them to the lodge of the priests. When I have done that I am 
ready to marry.’’ The young man sat down again and planned another 
war party. He said: ‘‘My friends, I go towards the east, where the 
sun rises. I have an enemy there. I must kill her. If any of you 
wish to go with me you may.”’ Some of the young men joined him and 
they went away. When they had traveled for some time they came to 
a big water and there they saw a grass-lodge. The young man told 
the others to remain behind, for he wanted to visit the grass-lodge him- 
self. The boy turned into a Hawk and flew to the grass-lodge. When 
the old woman found out that the Hawk had visited her lodge she turned 
into an Owl. She remained in the lodge. The Hawk flew inside and 
with his right wing struck the Owl upon the head. Instead of the Owl 
being killed it turned into a Witch-Woman. The Witch-Woman laughed 
at the Hawk, but the Hawk jumped down to the ground and stood there 
as ayoung man. This time he had the club. Hestruck the woman upon 
the head, smashed her skull, and killed her. The young man now invited 
the othermen tocome. They took the old woman, placed her in a cache 
hole which she had dug, and buried her. The owl feathers, claws, and all 
her medicine bags they placed upon the fire and burned them. The 
warriors returned to their village. 
Every time the young man went down to the creek he would hear 
the clam shells singing about him. At last the clam shells said: ‘‘We 
are ready to receive some of your people, and to teach them our power. 
We want some of your people to become medicine-men. We live in the 
mud. The mud in which we live has power to cure. We want to give 
this mud to the people.”” The young man at this time had a friend who 
went with him everywhere. He placed him on the banks of the water 
and told the clam shells to talk to the boy. The young man went 
home, and remained there. After a while the other young man returned 
and said: ‘“‘I have some magic power now, so that I can do some won- 
derful things. If any of our people get sick I will doctor them.’”’ The 
young man was glad to hear this. He said: ‘‘It is now time that we go 
and hunt buffalo.” 
