312 THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE CEREMONIES OR POWER. 
The woman took the little animal and went down to the stream of 
water. She dipped the animal’s nose into the water, and when she took 
it up she saw a little piece of liverin its mouth. She could see the water 
heave, for the animals were in the water moving around. When the 
water was stirred the woman could see pieces of entrails in the water, 
and also blood. She went back to the village into her lodge. The boy 
took the animal and placed it near the fireplace, gave it some smoke 
and tobacco, and then put it back in the bundle. After that the boy 
became the leader of the medicine-lodge and taught the people what 
the animals had taught him and not what his father had taught him. 
The people knew that the boy was a wonderful boy and that he had 
been taken into the animals’ lodge at Pahuk. 
86. THE CHIEF’S SON WHO RECEIVED THE ANIMAL POWER.’ 
A long time ago the people had their village upon the Republican 
River. In the village was a fine-looking young man who was a son of 
the chief. The young man was very kind and was good to everybody. 
There was a man who became very fond of the chief’s son and one day he 
came to him and said, ‘‘I would like to talk with you and take you toa 
far-away country.’’ The boy, suspecting nothing, promised to go with 
the man, and so they prepared for their journey and started. They 
traveled for many days until at last they came to a place known as Pahuk. 
They went to a steep bank and sat down. The man began to tell the boy 
that there had been stories told about this wonderful place, and that he 
had brought him there because he wanted to tie a rope around his waist 
and let him down over the steep bank to pick up some eagle and wood- 
pecker’s feathers which were upon the bank. The man puta lariat around 
the boy’s waist and let him down the steep bank. When the boy reached 
the bank he began to pick up the feathers. He then looked up to tell 
the man to pull him up, but the man was not there and there were no signs 
of him. The boy cried for help, for he wasin trouble. On the journey he 
had become pregnant, and gradually grew larger all the time until, when 
he was upon the bank, he knew that he was about to give birth. Then he 
cried and yelled and called to the man to pull him up, but the man had 
run away and left the boy hanging on the side of the steep bank so that 
he would die. The boy cried until he was exhausted and then he went 
to sleep. 
‘Told by White-Sun, Kitkehahki. The story teaches that it is impossible to 
deceive the animals. Especially does it illustrate the dire consequences befalling one 
who betrays a friend. 
