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with him. They went back and all was light. They crossed upon the 
log together. They went on until they came to the old woman’s tipi. 
The old woman then gave them something to eat and kept them there 
for some time. She taught the young man a certain ceremony known 
as the Elk dance. She gave him a whistle and some red beans and 
told him that when he returned to his people he must give them 
the red beans to eat, so that they would receive power to communicate 
with the dead spirits. She then told the young man to take the four 
balls with him on the journey home, and whenever they became hungry 
to throw one of these balls away and it would turn into a buffalo. ‘‘Then,’’ 
she said, ‘‘you must cut up the buffalo and jerk the meat and dry it, so 
that youcan carry it with you. When the meat gives out you must 
throw the next mud ball andit will turnintoa buffaloand you must kill 
it. Cut up the meat and dry it and carry it with you. When you have 
used all of the meat, throw the third ball, and when you have used the 
meat from the third ball throw the fourth ball.’’ They started on 
their journey and did as the old woman told them to do. With them 
the mysterious being traveled, as he had promised the young man that 
he would. When they had thrown the last ball and killed the last 
buffalo, the mysterious being said: ‘‘Now I must leave you. I took 
you to the Spirit-Land, and you have your wife and also the ceremony. 
Iam the Wind. Your village isnow but a short distance away.”’ Then 
‘the young man and the young woman went on and they finally reached 
home. 
The man and his ghost-wife lived happily for some time, but when 
the young man started up the Elk dance the women liked it so much 
that they came to him and wanted him to marry them. The ghost-wife 
had told the man that she did not want him to have anything to do with 
other women, and when he disobeyed her she became sick and died again, 
and this time she died for good. The man cried at her grave as he had 
done before, and the Wind came to him and told him that there was no 
use of his crying; that the woman had come back to him and that he had 
not treated her right. The young man went into the village and taught 
some friends his ceremony, and after he knew that his ceremony was 
known, he wandered off and died. 
113. THE SPIRIT WIFE AND THE WHISTLE DANCE. 
(See Abstracts.) 
[Told by White-Horse. This tale is the Pitahauirat variant of No. 112.] 
