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CONTENTS
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Bibliography xiii
Acknowledgments xv
In memoriam—James Mooney xvii
Introduction 1
Material and method 1
The writer of the manuscript 7
General background—Informants used 7
Linguistic notes 10
Phonetic symbols and abbreviations 11
Disease, its nature and its causes 14
Nature of disease 14
General semeiology 16
Disease causes 17
Natural causes 17
Supernatural causes 18
Spirits 19
The Sun 19
The Fire 21
The Moon 22
The River
Thunder—Red Man—Two Little Red Men
22
23
Purple Man, Blue Man, Black Man, etc 24
Various Little People 25
Animal Spirits
25
Ghosts 26
Human ghosts
26
Animal ghosts
26
Preternatural causes
29
Witches
29
"Man-killers" 33
aye^'ltGo"Gi diseases
33
"Mulier menstruans" 34
Dreams
35
Omens 37
Neglected taboos; disregarded injunctions 38
Causes of contagious disease 39
Disease and its treatment
39
Diagnosis and prognosis
39
List of spirits
Color symbolism—Sacred numbers
42
51
Materia medica
52
Paraphernalia used in the treatment
58
Curing methods
60
Prescriptions as to diet, taboos, etc
64
A typical curing procedure
67
Surgery
68
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