HOW THE WITCH-WOMAN WAS KILLED. 11g 
The people went on a hunt and while on this hunt the young man 
killed four buffalo and made them holy, so that they could be sacrificed to 
the different gods. After he did this he married the daughter of the 
chief. This young man became a great warrior, while the other young 
man became a great medicine-man. The young man then told the peo- 
ple that he was born under the protection of the sun; that this woman 
who was now killed was the last of the witch-women in the country. 
The young man then told the people that from that time on they must 
_ call him White-Sun; so he was afterwards known by this name. He did 
not become a chief. He was a great warrior and did not care to become 
a chief. 
30. PURSUIT BY A RATTLING SKULL; THE PLEIADES.’ 
One time, while the people were on a buffalo hunt, they made their 
camp near a stream of water. A young girl in the village went off to 
gather some wood. She strayed and wandered around until she was 
lost and could not find her way back to camp. A Skull found and cap- 
tured her and took her to its earth-lodge. When the girl was seated in 
the lodge, the Skull rolled up to her and told her that it had captured 
her so that she might wash it and keep it clean; that she was to eat the 
scales that came off from it, and if she did this her life would be spared. 
The girl was not allowed to eat anything but the scales from the Skull. 
The girl began to cry, but the Skull spoke and said: ‘‘There is no use for 
you to cry, for you are with me now, and you must begin to clean me.” 
The people missed the girl. They hunted and hunted for her, but 
they could not find her. For many days they hunted. At last the 
chief told the crier to cry through the village that they must break camp 
and move to another place. The people then moved away and gave up 
all hope of ever finding the girl. When they had been gone for some 
time the Skull spoke to the girl and said: ‘‘You must remain in this 
lodge. I am going far away.’’ When the Skull was gone the girl 
began to cry. The Skull did not stay very long, but came back and rolled 
up to the girl and she had to take the scales off from it and eat them. 
Several times the Skull went off. Each time it came back in a short time. 
When the Skull found out that the girl would not leave, it told the girl 
that it was going to be gone for several days. The Skull rolled out and 
3 1Told by White-Sun, whose grandfather was the leading medicine-man of the 
_ Kitkehahki. He was a famous story-teller. The object performing the magic 
flight in this tale is literally a rattling skull, and is not to be confused with the round 
-individual mentioned in tale No. 5. This more nearly approximates the usual 
form of this tale among the plains tribes. 
