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known as Whipping Feather and have power to travel fast and drive buffalo. Boy 
accompanies his parents and they find ground beans. Next he returns home with 
deer and then notifies people that buffalo have arrived. Boy marries and event- 
ually goes to North Wind. 
28. THE MAN WHO MARRIED A BUFFALO. 
On buffalo hunt shy boy who dislikes girls has intercourse with cow. Next 
spring this cow has calf, which repeatedly asks for its father. With its mother 
they go east to find its father. They change into human beings and enter father’s 
lodge. They tell his sister that they want tosee him. He does not recognize her and 
does not at first acknowledge that he is father of child. She explains, and he takes 
them into his lodge and presents them as his wife and child. He shuns woman, but 
makes much of boy. Within four days she becomes exactly like other people and 
warns people to be on their guard against her son lest he strike their children, 
when his hands would be like buffalo’s hoofs; also that he should not be permitted to 
fall lest he become buffalo. The child often takes water to his father while gam- 
bling. One day his father, losing, becomes angry and refuses to drink. His wife 
knows of it, leaves lodge, takes her son, and they start away. Man gets his mocca- 
sins and follows, his wife refusing to return with him. His child, pitying his father 
feeds him with pemmican, which falls to ground as his father strikes him on 
forehead, at hisrequest. Calf brings water from ground for his father to drink, by 
pawing earth. On fourth day they arrive at buffalo village, where cow and calf 
disappear. On next day calf appears and tells his father that he is to be asked to 
identify his father-in-law in line of twenty buffalo. This he is able to do by tail marks 
onrump. On following day he identifies his mother-in-law by means of two cockle 
burrs on her forehead. Next day he identifies his wife by cockle burr on her tail. 
On following day he identifies his child as it winks at him and by cockle burr over his 
right eye. Buffalo now agree to allow him to remain with them, and they by magic 
turn him into buffalo bull. Accompanied by his wife and son and twenty buffalo 
they go to village of people in order that father might obtain eagle feathers, etc., as 
presents. Thishe does. He tells his people to go to certain place following morn- 
ing and there find buffalo; to kill them and make them holy. Man takes three 
additional bunches of buffalo to his people and thereafter buffalo scatter. Once 
it was found out that man himself had been killed, because when his hide was re- 
moved it was discovered to be covered with feathers. 
29. HOW THE WITCH-WOMAN WAS KILLED. 
East of village lives Witch-Woman. Sometimes she doctors people, and other 
times bewitches and kills them. In village boy is born whose father is White 
Moccasins, a wonderful man. Child is favorite with all women, who carry him 
about on their backs, passing him from one to another. Witch desires child and asks 
Clam Shell to change places with her while she travels with people. On following 
morning witch obtains child and goes off with it, telling Clam Shell to follow people, 
so suspicion would not be cast on her. Witch carries child far to east. People 
mourn for child and keep abandoning their lodges until only that of White Moc- 
casin is left. Witch stops at big water, makes grass-lodge and garden, where she 
remains with boy for many years, boy providing game and calling old woman his 
