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16. LIGHTNING AND THE PEOPLE. 
Lightning lives upon earth with people, but he becomes so powerful and kills so 
many people that he is sent away. Great monster lives under ground and begins 
to carry away people. They can not kill him, as he always disappears under 
ground. Lightning tells them he will kill monster if they will let him come back. 
He will kill all monsters and make earth safe place for people to live. People let 
Lightning come back. 
17, THE BROTHERS WHO BECAME LIGHTNING AND THUNDER. 
Medicine-Man has wife and child twelve years old. He kills many deer. One 
day on returning from hunting he finds boy alone. He asks where mother is, and 
child says she took water bucket and went toward creek. They go and can not 
find her. There are footprints at edge of water, and man knows something has 
taken his wife. They go back to house and mourn for six days. Seventh day 
Medicine-Man goes hunting. While he is gone, boy plays with bow and arrows. 
Fourth time father goes, and while boy is playing, unknown boy with long nose 
and very long hair comes. He says he is boy’s elder brother, and will always 
come to see him when father goes hunting, but he is not to tellfather. They play 
with bows and arrows, and unknown boy runs back to woods when he sees 
Medicine-Man coming. Medicine-Man again goes to hunt, and after fourth time 
boy wakes father at midnight and tells him about his brother. Father says they 
must capture boy and tells son he must play as though he had gone away, and 
he will turn into small insect and stay behind door. Boy comes, but sees man 
behind door and runs away. Next day father places himself at edge of roof of 
grass house, but boy again sees. Third day father tells boy to tie other boy’s hair, 
and then places himself in middle of fire, but unknown boy finds him out and 
tuns back to woods. Next day man goes behind another door, and fifth time he 
places himself in air, but boy each time finds him. Sixth time boy does not see 
which way father goes, and when he says father has gone hunting, other boy 
believes him and sits down by him. Little boy gets hold of his hair and says 
there is something init. Boy tells him to get it out, and little boy ties hair as 
father had said. He calls and father jumps out of grass house. They capture boy 
and keep him in grass house six days. Then they wash boy, and Medicine-Man 
cuts his nose off and makes it look human. Before going hunting again, Medicine- 
Man tells boys not to go to place where large squirrels live, for they kill little 
children. They go to place and big squirrel comes out of hole in tree, sticks 
tongue out like snake, and takes young brother into tree. Other boy goes home 
and brings fire. He puts hard red stones into fire, and when hot throws two 
stones into hole. Large squirrel comes out and drops on ground dead. Boy goes 
and cuts open squirrel’s stomach and finds brother alive. Boys goto make arrows. 
Unknown boy makes two arrows for his brother and paints one black and other 
blue. They make small wheel of thin bark. They roll wheel to each other and 
shoot it with arrows. They play with wheel every day until Medicine-Man’s boy 
misses it and wheel keeps rolling and they can not find it. They start out after 
wheel, and when they have gone long way, they stop forrest. They pray to spirits 
to helpthem. Unknown boy puts pecan nut in ground. Itsprouts and tree grows 
up to sky. Boy tells brother he is going up tree, and will be gone until he has 
dropped all bones in his body and his head, and that brother must gather bones in 
pile, cover with buffalo calf’s hide, and shoot arrow up as hard as he can. When 
