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OlbrecIts] the swimmer MANUSCRIPT 285
The medicine man makes the rather startHng assertion that the
crying of the child is due to the fact that seven fairy clans are playing
a ball game in its stomach, and he calls upon the Red Man to swoop
down upon them like a hawk upon its prey and drive them out into
the Night Land
The Red Man is probably the Thunder, and this would explain the
reference to "the noise as of thunder" with which he takes them out
west.
The medicine consists of an infusion of tso"'laGay9*'li, Nicotiana
rustica L., wild tobacco, blown over the body of the child for four
consecutive nights. Any feathers in the house must be put outside
during the course of the treatment, and the child itself should be kept
indoors for the four days during which the treatment lasts. These
precautions are taken, as the medicine man stated, because the
disease closely resembles GQ*Vanf'Gtst9"'.i,^® another children's complaint,
which is beheved to be caused by the birds, and which may
be communicated from their feathers or from their shadow falling
upon the child as they fly overhead.
Ay. could not explain the restriction with regard to the articles of
skin, since this is one of the Ut. formulas.
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Whenever they have an to cure anyone with this
itching
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root, little they must drink it, E. to be used with it it must be blown
on them,
o-'ya Dalo'^ntGe*"' (4 times).
(Fire) yellow
Sharply!
o*'ya (4 times).
(Fire)
tci'stu Dalo'^DtGe"''' {4 times).
Rabbit yellow
*ya^
Sharplyl
tct'stu (4 times).
Rabbit
2^ When they (i. e., the birds) eat them (the children).
37 Emendation by editor.