96 THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE WICHITA. 
Headless-Man (Chearppeschaux) ; and the place where they were told 
not to roll the ring. These were the places their father forbade them 
to go. The next day the father of the boys went out hunting and told 
the boys to remain at home, for they must not go out in the timber to 
shoot birds. Their father was out hunting that whole day. When he 
returned from his hunt he found his boys at home. ‘The man then 
cooked for the boys some fresh meat that he had brought home with 
him. ‘Tihis was the second night that After-birth-Boy had been with 
his father and brother. The next day the man went out hunting again. 
After-birth-Boy asked his brother to go with him where their father 
had forbidden them to go, where the Spider-Woman was. So they 
started early, right after their father started out on the hunt. While 
on the way they shot a good many birds to take to the Spider-Woman. 
They finally reached the place where the woman was living. They 
went to a place where they saw smoke coming out from the ground. 
On entering they were received kindly by the Spider-Woman. The 
two boys gave her the birds they had shot for her to eat. The Spider- 
Woman then asked the boys to sit down in her lodge. This woman was 
pleased to see them, and asked where they had come from. She then 
told the boys that she loved to eat birds, and that they should bring the 
birds to her; that that was the best thing anyone had ever done for 
her. She then told the boys to bring a pail full of water. There was 
a pail, but no one knows where the pail came from, nor what it was 
made out of. The boys did what the old woman told them to do. 
While they were out after the water After-birth-Boy told his brother 
that after their return with the water the woman would boil the water, 
and as soon as it should begin to boil she would catch them and throw 
them into the boiling water. After-birth-Boy told his brother to get 
on the side where the water was not boiling; that he himself would be 
on the boiling side; that while in the bucket he should urinate and de- 
fecate in the boiling water, and when he (After-birth-Boy) should get 
ready, he would notify him to make a quick jerk, and in that way ‘he 
would upset the bucket and pour the boiling water on the Spider- 
Woman and scald and kill her. When the boys took the pail of water 
into the lodge where this woman was she took it and put it on the fire 
to boil. As soon as the water got to boiling the woman crowded the 
boys away from the door, caught them and threw them into the boiling 
water. After-birth-Boy had great powers, and gave his brother power 
to live in the boiling water. He got on the side where the water was 
boiling the most, and both urinated. They could hear the Spider- 
Woman say that they were awfully fat, as was shown by the movement 
