MAN WHO RESCUED HIS WIFE FROM SPIRIT-LAND. 307 
love your wife, and do you love me?” ‘The married man said: “Yes, 
I love you both.” In his dream he thought to himself: “I wish this 
would come true and that I might see my friend and wife.’ So the 
dead man said to him: “It is true; wake up.” So he woke up and there 
was his friend standing right by him. His friend told him to come on 
with him. As they were going along he saw that he was in a large 
village, and it reached farther than his eye could see. Before entering 
the place his friend told him there was a dance there, and that his wife 
was dancing in a fine war dress, having a shield on her head; that when 
they should reach the place where the dance was he (the unmarried 
man) would leave him and let him watch his wife dance; that he would 
be given four hard, round clay balls to throw at his wife, each one of 
which, when thrown, could not fail to hit her; that when the last ball 
had been thrown, his wife would leave the dance without paying any 
attention to him and would go home; that he should follow his wife, 
and finally he would find her; that he must not say a word, but must 
sit down anywhere near the door inside the lodge; that for a while, 
people would not recognize him, and finally would ask him if he wanted 
to live with his wife; that when this question was asked he must say: 
“Yes, and I want my wife;” that he would be told to go to a certain 
place where there were four buffalo in an open place, and even though 
he were a good marksman, he would fail to kill one of the buffalo; 
that he must get on a horse, and run the horse at full speed in order ‘to 
get to them while they were getting up. The dead man also told the 
young man that the reason why the folks in the other world would 
not pay any attention to him was, that the people in the other world 
had a very different scent from the people in this world. So when 
they reached the place, the young man saw a dance called the Turkey- 
dance, which was being danced by women. There he saw his wife, 
and when she went around the pole to the side he was on he threw a 
ball of clay at her and hit her. When she came around again he threw 
another ball of clay and hit her again. The third time he threw another 
ball and hit her again. When she came around the fourth time he hit 
her again. The song ended and she left the dance. 
The woman went to her home, and her husband followed her. 
When she entered he entered the place, too, and sat down by the door 
of the tipi. The folks now recognized him, and he sat there for a long 
time before any of the folks said anything to him. The father of this 
woman finally spoke to the man and asked him if he was looking for 
his wife. He answered, saying: “Yes, I was looking for her.’’ His 
father-in-law asked him many questions; if he would be true to his 
