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Olbrechts] the swimmer MANUSCRIPT 289
This has to be sung:
This is the Medicine (for) Their Head
FREE TRANSLATION
Ha-yi! The Men, the Wizards have gone by,
They have caused relief.
Under the earth they have gone by.
As they went they Hfted the disease up.
They have caused reUef.
The Little Wizards
Have gone by under the earth.
As they went they lifted the disease up.
They have caused relief. Sharply!
Now, then! The Red Men have gone by. They have forced their
way through the center of his body. They have come to scatter the
important thing. They have caused rehef. Sharply!
Now, then! Now, the Purple Men have gone by on high. They
have come to scatter the important thing. They have caused relief.
Sharply!
EXPLANATION
The medicine used with this headache formula is [ordinary chewingl
tobacco, with a little ginseng {Panax trifolium L.) root, [if availablel.
These are chewed by the medicine man and the juice is blown upon
[the forehead, the temples, the crown of] the head and the back of
the neck of the patient.
The medicine man stands erect while singing the preliminary song.
He then recites the first paragraph of the formula and blows the juice
on the patient four times. This is repeated after the second para-
graph, and the whole ceremony may be repeated. As usual, the
patient sits facing the east. In most headache formulas the ceremony
is about the same.
[The Red Men and the Purple Men mentioned belong probably to
the class of the "Little People." (See p. 25.)]
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