§42 THE PAWNEE: MYTHOLOGY. 
126. COYOTE AND THE ROLLING STONE. 
Coyote looking for food gives his knife to big, round stone, asking it to help him 
find food. He enters lodge in village and sees meat and regrets his foolishness in 
having given away his knife. He returns to stone, takes his knife with him, 
returns toward village, but village has disappeared. He gives his knife again to 
stone. Hereturns and discovers village second time. He goes back to stone and 
takes his knife. Stone starts after him. He asks help of bears, but they claim 
they are powerless; likewise, mountain-lions and buffalo. Bull bats offer protec- 
tion and he enters their lodge. They expel flatus on stone as it approaches, break- 
ing it in pieces. Coyote starts on his way again, but makes fun of bull bats, where- 
upon they fly about stone fragments, reassemble them, and stone again pursues 
Coyote and kills him. 
127. COYOTE AND THE ROLLING SKULL. 
Coyote sings about hunting buffalo on prairie. Buffalo skull taunts him. 
Coyote replies insultingly to Skull, and it pursues him into village and devours him 
and all people except four girls. They flee and Skull takes after them. As it 
approaches closely, one girl throws her packstring on ground and cactus appears. 
Coyote overtakes her and kills her. Next, Skull’s flight is retarded by second 
woman’s packstring, which forms steep bank and creek. He crosses on floating logs, 
overtakes girl, and kills her. Third woman with her packstring makes ravine, but 
Skull gets over and killsher Youngest cries for help. Bull bats direct her to hol- 
low. There she finds small lodge and small boy. He tells her to enter his lodge. 
Skull appears and demands girl, and boy blows blue bead from his mouth, which 
strikes Skull, breaking itin two. Boy is Milkweed. 
128. COYOTE TURNS INTO A BUFFALO. 
Starving Coyote meets buffalo bull eating grass, envies him his ease in obtain- 
ing food, and desires to learn to imitate buffalo. After repeatedly fleeing for his 
life, he allows buffalo to charge upon him in buffalo wallow, and he becomes buffalo 
and remains with them. He is told to sit while resting with his nose toward wind, 
to detect odor of approaching enemy. Coyote begs Coyote-Buffalo to make him 
also buffalo. He attempts to do so, but becomes himself coyote. He returns to 
buffalo, asking them to transform him again into buffalo. They do so. Coyote 
travels west and is warned that he will meet nineteen cows and bull, and that he is to 
refuse invitation from bull to travel to land of human beings. Coyote meets bull 
and accepts his invitation. They travel on many days, Coyote each night propos- 
ing that they smoke, but bull tells him it isnot yet time. Hunters surround buffalo 
and kill all except one, which runs very fast. As they are about to shoot it, it falls 
over precipice and becomes Coyote again. Coyote returns to buffalo and asks them 
to make him buffalo once more. They pretend to repeat performance, placing him 
in buffalo wallow, where he is gored to death. 
129. COYOTE FAMILY RUN AFTER THE BUFFALO. 
While Coyote is on hunt his wife and child run after buffalo. Coyote over- 
takes them and kills buffalo, whereupon they decide not to travel longer as one 
family, but to scatter out over country. 
