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182 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [lUiu,. 09
Tl\e color of the animal spirits beinj]: yellow explains the expression:
"It is tlie very thing you two adorn yoursolvcs with." Tho bilo is
supposed to have become stagnant, and these animals are expected
to effect a cure by wallowing in it and thus stirring it up. It is with
the same object in view that the medicine man rubs the stomach of
the patient, viz, to scatter the "clotted " bile. (See p. G2.)
The symptoms of the disease are a vomiting of bile and a throbbing
and soreness about the navel, so that the slightest touch is painful;
[the umbilic region] also becomes much swollen. Wliile the disease
is believed to be primarily the work of revengeful annual ghosts, the
doctor from whom the formula was obtained said that the imtucdiate
cause was that the gall (a't'a'cS") sometimes [by the native medicine
men] confounded with the bile (Dalo'ni), gets into the veins and
collects under the navel (!) He claimed this as an original discoveiy
and prided himself upon it accordingly.
No medicine is used, the medicine man simply rubbing the sore
spot with his hands previously warmed over the fire as described
on page 62. The medicine man recites the formula in a whisper,
while rubbing bis hands together over the fire. Then laying them
flat upon the seat of pain, he draws them slowly down over the place,
blowing upon the spot once at the end. This operation is repeated
four times at each application, and four applications complete the
treatment, the first being about sunrise and tho last just before noou,
as already explained. In this and most other forms of ])alo*ni the
tsi;'Gi*tsuy5"/sti fish (Horny Head) is tabooed on account of its
tendenc}'^ to rai)id decay.
"
Both the medicine man and his assistant, but not tho patient,
abstain from food until after the fourth application.
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thou wizard
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facing us
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where thoy cling
to oacli other
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their navel to cure any one with this
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thou hast come to (push it)
with tlie crown of thy
hoiui back to whore
it ought to be
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thou hast come to it important
push it away
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thou art staying lia, now
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it escapes from my (sight) nevw
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as thou comest hither
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