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you from my people?’’ ‘‘No,’’ said he, ‘‘though I often go around 
their village at night. Do not be frightened, and I will tell you who 
Iam. People call me Spotted-Wolf. I have come here to see you and 
your child and to beg you not to start too soon on your journey, for 
_ there are many dangerous animals on the way.’’ ‘The woman replied : 
‘‘T know, but I want to go to my people. It is lonely here, and I am 
afraid.’’ Spotted-Wolf said: ‘‘I am afraid something will happen to 
youif you gonow. ‘Take this tobacco, and if you meet danger and need 
help throw some of it to the four directions and call to me, and I will 
come and help you.’’ The woman took the tobacco ; then Spotted- Wolf 
arose and went to his home. 
After a few days the woman decided to start on her journey. She 
put her child on her back and started. After she had traveled three 
days she saw in her way a strange-looking being. She went on, and 
as she came nearer she was not certain whether it was a wild animal or 
a person ; but in a moment it dropped on the ground and rolled over 
twice, and then she saw that it was a wild animal. Again she looked 
and saw that it had taken the form of a person. Then she knew that it 
was a cannibal, for those creatures first appear as human beings ; then 
they turn into wild animals and eat people. She was frightened so 
that she could not go on, for she thought that she and her child would 
be eaten by the cannibal. She thought of Spotted-Wolf and took some 
tobacco out of her bag and threw it to the south, the east, the west, 
and the north ; and as she threw it she prayed that Spotted- Wolf would 
come and help her. Soon she heard the how] of a wolf in the south, 
then another in the east, another in the west, and another in the north. 
The cannibal stopped growling at her and looked frightened. Ina 
moment big spotted wolves were coming from the four directions. They 
killed the cannibal, and the wolf from the south conducted the woman 
and her child in safety to the village of her people. 
There is another kind of cannibal, though not so dangerous as the 
one who first appears as a human being, then turns to an animal. 
These cannibals live as human beings and eat people only after they 
are dead. Whenever they hear of any one who is sick and about to 
die they pretend to be sick, too, and when they hear that the sick 
person is dead, they pretend to die, too, and are buried; but in the 
night they jump out of their graves and steal the dead person before 
the spirits can take him away. 
One time there was an old medicine-man and he had noticed how 
certain people got sick whenever they heard of any one else being sick, 
and how they died when the sick person died, and then how they always 
came to life again. He watched one of these beings for a long time ; 
