84 * THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE WICHITA. 
Once upon a time the brother took a notion to take his wife bacx 
to her home, when he learned that she was pregnant. It must pe re- 
membered that Owner-of-Black-and-White-Flint-Knives now had less 
powers, since the women had fed him what human beings ate; but 
there were still people who feared him. They started on their journey 
and traveled until about the middle of the afternoon, when they stopped 
for the night. The man told his wife to gather a big pile of wood; 
for some one would be around at night to fight him, and in order to 
have light they must have plenty of wood to keep the fire burning all 
night. He said he knew he was to lose his life, for he no longer had 
the same feeling or the same powers as he had had in his earlier life, 
when nothing could bother him, but now, having less powers, some sort 
of animal was going to carry him off. In order to prevent this for a 
time they must keep up a good fire and remain near it. He also told 
her that when the child should be born, she should call him Young- 
Flint-Knife (Tahaaniyer) ; that when it was about time for her to 
give birth she should be left alone in the lodge; that she must not allow 
the child to come out any other than the usual way for a child to come 
out; that she should keep talking to the child inside, for he would re- 
fuse to come out, but she must keep telling him to come out just where 
a child ought to come out; that when the child should be born she 
should give him one piece of black flint and one of white to eat, and the 
first time he should want to know what sort of things were for boys 
to play with, bow and arrows should be given him. That night, when 
they had the fire built, they heard some creature asking if he could 
come around. The man told him to come on; that he was ready for 
him. The creature came and they at once began to pull one another. 
Every time the creature pulled Owner-of-Black-and-White-Flint- 
Knives a little distance from the fire, he would begin to pull back, and 
would bring the animal to the fire. Thus they pulled back and forth 
to and away from the fire, the animal’s intention being to carry off the 
man. They pulled each other back and forth all night, but as soon as 
it was daylight they parted. The foe was Double-Faced-Monster 
(Witschatska). The man and his wife began to travel again, going 
toward the east. About the middle of the afternoon they stopped and 
gathered a big pile of wood. About dark there came that same thing 
that had visited them the night before, which asked if it might come 
around, and the man told him to come around, and that he would meet 
him. They began to get hold of one another. The Double-Faced- 
Monster would try to carry the man far enough into the dark so that 
he could take him off, but about the time he would carry him far enough 
