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220 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 99
(c) SGe" I
G€-" . . . (etc.)
(d) SGe" I
GO" . . . {etc.)
5 Di'-SD^Ga tsi;*'nt'9'no°' |
*a'no'"Gwo'
'a'no-"G\vo"'
'a't'^ija-'iifGa' iiwo"a''ir ;)"'na-
Eaglo black
'aH'Qqa'm-oa' uwo"a"ir tsune-'-
Eaglo thou white
Di^-su'^Ga
tsD-'nsti''Ga a-'^skwa-
Gaiirol) they are tall (laurel) they are little (Indian poke)
nfDo'*' riQ-'wo-t'i' |
€-"wso!i
DtkVnuGo/sto.ti'
to cure with (Fetter Bush) to scratch them with
This (is) for the Purpose of It, Whenever They Have Pain
IN Different Places
FREE TRANSLATION
(a) Now, then! Ha, now thou hast come to listen. Brown Eagle.
Ha, thou art staying, moving about, yonder in the treetops.
Thou art a powerful wizard. It is only what has become a ghost
(that has put the important thing imder him); it is only what has
become an animal ghost (that has put the important thing under
him). Quickly thou hast come to carry it off. It is thine; it is thy
food. Relief has happened at the same time. Thou hast come to
make it so for him.^^
Tsuh! (4 times).
(b) Now, then! Ha, now thou hast come to listen, Blue Eagle
(etc.) . . .
(c) Now, then! Ha, now thou hast come to listen. Black Eagle
(etc.) ...
(d) Now, then! Ha, now thou hast come to listen, thou White
Eagle (etc.) . . .
Great laurel, mountain laurel, Indian poke (are) to treat (them)
with; fetter bush (leaves) to scratch them with.
EXPLANATION
Another formula for the treatment of shifting pains. (No. 33, p.
215.) It consists of four paragraphs addressed to the eagles. The
medicine consists of a warm infusion of the leaves of Dvsy^Ga tsi;''nt'9-
no°', Rhododendron maximum L., great laurel; Di;si;*'Ga tsi'nstf'ca,
Kalmia latifolia L., mountain laurel, calico bush, spoonwood;
a"'®skwan€*'D8, Veratrum viride Ait., American white hellebore,
Indian poke, making a very pungent application, which is rubbed
upon the sore spot by the medicine man, after having scratched the
skin with the pricldy serrated edge of a bunch of the leaves : €*"wso'U,
Leucothoe catesbaei (Walt.) Gray, fetter bush.
" The patient.