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270 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 99
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now, then now thou hast como to Leech blue thou
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ho haslet it down, App. quiclvly tliou has come to
pull it out
a likeness of it
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will remain, L. beyond It stretched it has boon said Sharply
This is the Medicine Whenever Tpieir Breast Aches
FKEE TUANSLATION
Now, then! Mink, ha, red (one).
Mink, ha, red (one).
Take the hnporlant thing and eat it.
Mink, ha, red (one), tiiou wizard, quickly relief has been caused
Sharply!
Now, then! Ha, now tliou liast come to listen, Red Otter, thou
wdzard. It is what has become a o;host that has put the important
thing under him.-° lie has put the important thing under him,^° that
it might never be found again.
Now, then! Ha, now thou liast come to listen, thou terrible Otter,
thou penetrator. Thou hast come to make the imjiortant thing get
up (from imdor tlie patient). Relief has been caused (and) not for
one night (only, but forever.) Relief has been caused. Sharply!
Now, then! (Ila, now thou hast come to listen), Weasel, thou
wizard, quickly thou hast thy paths stretched out in our direction.
The important thing is merely what has become a ghost. Ha, now
thou hast come to make it get up. A mere likeness of it will only
remain where thou hast passed. Relief has been caused at the same
time. Sliarply!
Now% tlien! Now thou hast come to listen, Blue Leech, thou
wizard. The important thing is merely what lias become a ghost; it
let Heat down, it seems. Quickly thou hast come and pulled it out.
A mere likeness of it will remain. Relief has been caused. Sharply!
explanation
This peculiar formula, the initial paragraph of which is sung, is for
treating pains in the breast, which are due, according to the fonnula
itself, to Heat having been let down by a ghost.
The Mink, the "yellow rat" or Weasel, and tlie Leech are invoked,
on acco\int of their sucking powers, to pull out the disease. The
»» W. E. form; C. D., tsany'si. 20 The patient.