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following nights, approaching more closely each night. She warns him that she is 
ghost and may disappear, but by perseverance he might retain her. One night 
spirits of children and musicians enter lodge, where fire is always burning. He is 
unable to see them, but when they say they have smoke, he answers, ‘‘It is well.’’ 
Thus spirits enter lodge on succeeding nights. Each night he is able to see more 
plainly. Finally leader addresses him, saying that they have taken pity on him, and 
warning him to guard his wife carefully. These spirits are girl’s relatives. Girlis 
able to relate events in real world, and tells him that people are now returning to 
their village; that her four uncles are about to put offerings of fat on her grave. 
Each day she continues to tell what has happened. There approaches final trial 
on his part to wrest her from spirit land. As her uncles approach the grave with 
fat offering, he is to hold her, for her spirit each time will struggle to free itself, 
for spirits dislike to be troubled with human beings. There are four trials. He 
fails in first three. Fourth time he is successful, aided by uncles, who try to 
hold her to earth. At that time she flies up into air, young man trying to hold her 
by her hair. After she has eaten corn and beans she announces that she will remain 
with them and that uncles are to remain four nights in their tipi. After four days 
have passed, the people, who have been on a hunt, return to village and are informed 
of what has taken place. They live with her mother for some time, but mother, 
becoming suspicious, goes to grave, where she digs and finds bones of her daughter. 
Returning, she announces her discovery, and her daughter admits that her bones are 
on hill, but that she is truly the spirit of her daughter. They live happily for many 
years, young man being successful on war-path and woman giving birth to boy. She 
may not cook nor make clothing. Boy grows, but is not allowed to touch ground, 
being continually packed on some one else’s back. Husband, though his wife at first 
protests, takes second wife, and they live happily formany years. Trouble finally 
comes, because he prefers pair of his ghost-wife’s moccasins to those of his other wife. 
He becomes angry because his wife reproaches him for having called her ghost-wife 
and strikes her. As he strikes her repeatedly she disappears. In her place sits a 
whirlwind, which rises up in lodge and goes out of opening at top. At night he goes 
to grave and cries, begging his wife to return. Child is placed in bed, but in morning 
is dead and is buried in its mother’s grave. For four days man mourns, when his 
wife’s spirit reappears and recounts that she has left because he struck her and she 
will never return, and that never again shall spirits return from spirit land. She 
becomes whirlwind again and disappears. Man diesof broken heart beside his wife’s 
grave, but is buried in another place. 
35. HOW THE WORLD IS TO COME TO AN END. 
Race of giants are first race, and they are destroyed by flood, whereupon 
Tirawa places buffalo bull in northwest to prevent second recurrence. Each year 
bull sheds a hair. With shedding of its last hair will ensue another flood and final 
destruction of human beings. Tirawa devises other ways also of destroying people. 
That fire might burn people, at which time, so Morning-Star said, Moon would turn 
red; should it turn black it would presage death of great chief; should Sun lose 
its brightness it would also foretell destruction of people; that North Star might 
eventually move, which would also be sign of world’s end. Morning-Star also tells 
people that pathway (Milky Way) leading from North to South Star is road of 
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