392 THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE CEREMONIES OR POWER. 
the man that it was he who was making all the noise, but the man could 
not believe him for a long time, but at last he was convinced. While 
Scalped-Man was away the man thought that he heard his own father 
and mother crying and calling his name, and then other people crying 
and calling to him. He became so excited that he arose for the first 
time and tried to walk. He was so sure that his father and mother had 
come and were looking for him, that he started to go to them and cried 
out to them, but he could not find the entrance. While he was running 
frantically about, trying to get out, Scalped-Man called and said, ‘“‘Get 
back there; the people will see you and take you away from me,” and he 
appeared before the excited man and began to laugh. The man asked 
him if he had seen any of the people who were calling him, and he said 
that he had not. After a while he told the man that it was he who made 
all the noise that sounded like the voices of his people. The man refused 
to believe Scalped-Man at first, but he began to cry and call and made 
his voice sound like many people talking, until he convinced the man. 
Then he offered to give him the power of making the many peculiar 
sounds. 
Every day he taught him, and he learned so rapidly that soon he could 
make sounds so well that he could fool Scalped-Man just as he had been 
fooled by him. Scalped-Man also taught him sleight-of-hand per- 
formances, and gave him a white downy feather and covered his body 
with white clay. He put many coats of clay over the wounded leg, and 
the soreness went away and the wounded man was healed. Then he 
blew his breath upon the eagle feather and put it in the man’s hair, say- 
ing: ‘‘Keep this and it will give you power, for it stands for me. I am 
a spirit and I travel like the wind and I run fast. When you want to 
run fast like a spirit, put this downy feather in your hair and spread clay 
all over your body as I have done, and then you can run. If you fight 
with the enemy, spread the clay all over your body, and when you want 
to run fast, spit upon your hands and wet the soles of your feet or moc- 
casins, and then you will be as swift as the wind. Break wild sage and 
carry it with you, and the pieces will turn into arrows at your wish when 
you are fighting. Now, I have taught you all that I know and have given 
you all the power that I have. In return I ask only that you do not 
mention me to the people or ever tell anyone where I live. Ifyou doI shall 
» know it at once, and though I move to some other place, I will punish 
you for telling.’’ Scalped-Man then embraced the man and told him 
that in a few days his people would come to see if he were living or dead, 
and so he would have to return to his old camp in the cave where the 
men had left him, so that his people would find him there. 
