508 THE PAWNEE: MYTHOLOGY. 
75. THE BOY WHO KILLED THE CANNIBAL WITCH. 
Young man wandered about country, finding many human skulls. He finds 
lodge about which are playing three ugly girls and one beautiful girl. Three ugly 
girls enter lodge and youngest warns him against her mother, who is cannibal. In 
morning young man is asked into lodge, is offered food repeatedly, but ithas no effect 
upon him. Old woman challenges him to dance, but he becomes snowbird and 
then lark, whereupon he carries oldwoman uptomoon. Then he returns, dismisses 
three oldest girls and takes youngest girl to his village as his wife. She prepares 
garden and plants different kinds of seeds. In meantime he goes to west and brings 
buffalo, which power he has obtained from larks. 
76. THE WITCH-WOMAN AND HER HOME. 
Hunter goes east to grass-lodge, which he is invited to enter by Witch-Woman. 
He partakes of food, dies, and his head is hung up in her lodge. After four days his 
wife sends her son to look for his father. She challenges boy to dance, but first she 
suspends about his neck his father’s head, which is held in place by cord pass- 
ing from ear to ear. Witch-Woman is about to kill boy, rescuers appear, and she is 
burned. She bursts open and croaking tree frog springs upon tree. 
77. THE MEDICINE-CHILD AND THE BEAVER MEDICINE. 
Young boy acts peculiarly, playing always by himself, imitating the ways of a 
doctor, in which he often has great success. Powerful medicine-man of neighboring 
tribe hears of boy’s ways, is jealous, and decides to visit him. He offers him 
tobacco from skunk-skin pouch. They smoke together. Again he, with his wife, 
visits boy and his mother, and continues relating to boy stories of his medicine. Sev- 
eral visits thereafter are made, and he and his wife bring presents and ask boy to 
relate stories of his medicine. Whereupon boy tells him he has no power whatever, 
that he has never been initiated into any mysterious lodge, and if he has cured people 
it has been without his knowledge of the origin of his curative power. Old man is 
enraged and on fourth night again offers boy smoke. Boy faints. Heis awakened 
by old man, who, with his wife, goeshome. Thereafter boy feels peculiar in his stom- 
ach. Heshows increasing signs of pregnancy, and sets out to die in strange country. 
He travels south, then west, going to dangerous places and tempting wild animals to 
slay him. On hill he hears noises, which he follows to large new tipi. Is repeatedly 
warned not to approach, but in spite of protest enters. He expresses his willingness 
to die. Little people sit around lodge, one queerly-dressed man being on south side, 
who wears white streaks of paint on his face, and over him hang lariats and downy 
feathers. They decide that raccoon and muskrat and two errand men should decide 
whether or not they would offer him help. They express their willingness, but 
other animals’ lodges must be consulted, and the peculiar man on south is instructed 
to take. boy to next animals’ lodge. Boy closes lis eyes and strange being flies up 
with him on his back. Within second animals’ lodge he finds that man who carried 
him is Hawk. Hawk explains their errand; animals express their willingness to help 
