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off and threw them away. Then the man went up to his ghost-wife and 
she had a pair of moccasins for him which her relatives had made for 
him. She gave the moccasins to him and he put them on and found that 
they were just right. 
The next day he went into the lodge of his other wife and she saw 
that he had a pair of moccasins on that his ghost-wife had given him. 
She went up to him, took the moccasins off of his feet and threw them 
away. She said: ‘You threw my moccasins away and I will throw away 
the moccasins of your ghost-wife.’’ The man became angry, took the 
moccasins, put them on, and returned to his ghost-wife’s lodge. When he 
entered and was seated she said: “I know all that happened in the other 
lodge where your wife is. She threw away my moccasins and called me 
a ghost-wife. Now you see what I told you has all come true.”’ The 
man became angry, spoke harsh words to his wife,and pushed her to one 
side. She said: ‘‘You must not do this; you must not strike at me. 
-You know what I told you.’”’ But the man was angry and he struck at 
her. She said: ‘Do not strike at me any more, for you know what I told 
you. Foronething Iam glad, andthatis Ihaveachild. If I hadremained 
in the Spirit Land I should never have been allowed to have a child. The 
child is mine. You do not love my child. You let that woman throw 
away the moccasins which I put upon your feet.”” The man became 
angry again and struck the woman on the face. The woman said: ‘*Do 
not strike at me any more.’’ The man was angry and struck at her. 
She said: ‘“‘I love my child. When I am gone I shall take my child with 
me.’’ As the man lifted his hand to strike her again she disappeared 
and where she was sitting a whirlwind formed, and the whirlwind arose 
and went straight up in the lodge and whirled around and went out of 
the opening at the top of the lodge. 
The man felt sorry for what he had done. The people scolded the 
man and he said nothing. He sat down near the fireplace and bowed 
his head. Towards evening he arose and went up on the high hill’ and 
there he stood near the grave crying, begging his wife to return to him. 
He cried and cried, and he stayed there upon the hill that night. The 
people took the child and put it to bed. In the morning they found 
the child dead. The people took the child up on the hill, opened its 
mother’s grave, and placed the child there. Then the man cried all the 
more. For four days and four nights he stood there. The woman 
appeared to him again and said: ‘‘Always remember that when we die 
we live again. My people took pity upon you and I came to you. 
You struck at me several times. I am gone away from you. From this 
time on no more dead people shall come to our people, for you did 
wrong in striking me. Arise, walk down into the village and stay there. 
