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260 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 99
caused by fever, personified under the name of y'Dtle^'Gi or Heat. In
accordance with the theory, Little Snow is invoked to dislodge the
disease. The medicine is the inner bark of the "wane-', Hicoria alba
(L.) Britt., hickory, chewed by the medicine man, and blown by him
into the mouth of the patient, after having recited the formula. He
then blows his breath into the patient's mouth, the whole operation
being repeated four tunes at each treatment, according to the regular
practice. The patient can not chew the hickory bark for himself,
but is sometimes given another medicine to chew in addition.
The ceremony may be performed either in the morning or in the
evening, or [if the seriousness of the complaint demands it], both.
If in the morning, it is performed while the patient is still fasting.
The medicine man, however, is not obliged to fast as in some cases.
Hot food and salt are tabooed as usual, and also beans. The
latter are prohibited in all fever diseases, because their skins sometimes
shrivel up as from an interior heat; [according to other medicine
men], because they resemble boils, or because they are watery. The
same reason probably accounts for the prohibition of beans and
potatoes in a similar ailment of the throat, noted in No. 48.
(a) sGe" I
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tcisko*'ya ama*'-y-ane'*i Di.'Da*n9''wo't'i^ a'a'
msect(s) water, Loc, they to cure people with this
are living
*a'-no'Gw5^' u'sonn'-li 'a't'or)a"'ni*Ga' tsi;li'sta=
now then ha now quickly thou hast come to listen (cat-fish)
nala' De^a^lu' a'm-aye"*li Dt'tsotlt'o'i'sti |
'a'\-tcsko''ya'
purple water, middle thou art staying ha, insect(s)
a'niDe^'a^lu' Ge"Sf'[.i^] ylsGe''D9 Di;'n6ni'"'y't'an£.'lf.i' j
^a'-no""
they yellow it is, App, it important they have put it under him, App ha,
SGWO"^' i;'som;-'h Ge't'aDt'Gale-'^yO'W^st'a'nfGa' |
i;So"iD9'
now quickly thou hast come to scatter it as thou comest night, been
ni;''D8'no''na |
i;tst"-nawu-Gw5^
aDo"nt*Ga' |
'ya*
it has not been said beyond it stretched, L it has been said Sharply
^a^-no-Gwo"' y'sonv'li 'a't'9qa"'ni*Ga' o''li'Ga^
now then ha, now quickly thou hast come to listen Red Horse
(b) SGe" I
wo"'DiGe-'i a'm-aye"4i Dt'tsottt*o't'sttDe*Ga' |
'a*\-tcsko'y8-Gwo'^^
brown water, middle thou art staying, moving about ha, insect (s), L
a'mwo''DtGf '[i^] Ge'sf'[i^] ulsGf'Da *tDi;mm;'y't'ant'l€.i' *a'-no'they
brown it is, App it important it which they have put ha,
under, App
IOgwo"' y'sonu-'li (etc., as in a.)
now quickly
ct'a' tcsko-'yo° Dt'Da'nQ-'wo-t*i' |
a'nty9"°ts€-'ni
tsv'ntyQ'^-
this insect(s) to cure people with their throat when their
tso't'tska' v'nt'asGf'Da yt'ki | *t"a-Gwo^' tGa"'.i' |
throat swells it oozes out from them if it is this, L it (is) all
7 Emendation by editor.