So the tribal story-teller comes to be the most important character"the Jesuit smiled in that shrewd and gentle way of his"that is, of course, after the Shamán, as the Russians call him, the medicine-man, who is a teller of stories, too, in his more circumscribed fashion.

She opened her little medicine chest and took out some medicine.

When she would hear of trouble, she would send a messenger to Mary with a medicine bottle.

Like all Indian councils, it was preceded by smoking the "medicine pipe," and was followed by speeches from several of the best orators.

She remembered her childhood days and the stories she loved to hear about the unusual powers of her grandfather,recalled how she, the wee girl, had coveted the medicine bags, beaded and embroidered in porcupine quills, in symbols designed by the great "medicine man," her grandfather.

" Opening his medicine case, he bent over the racked sufferer.

[Footnote: A medicine woman is a female doctor or juggler.

Women pretend to foretell future events, and, for this reason, are sometimes invited to medicine feasts.

After the piñon harvest the clans foregather on a warm southward slope for the annual adjustment of tribal difficulties and the medicine dance, for marriage and mourning and vengeance, and the exchange of serviceable information; if, for example, the deer have shifted their feeding ground, if the wild sheep have come back to Waban, or certain springs run full or dry.

I gave it as my opinion that there should be vines around the house (Waste of time, said Horace), and that no farmer should permit anyone to paint medicine advertisements on his barn (Brings you ten dollars a year, said Horace), and that I proposed to fix the bridge on the lower road (What's a path-master for?

Seated at the extreme east, "at the place where the earth is cut off," watching in his medicine lodge, or passing his time fishing in the endless ocean which on every side surrounds the land, Michabo sends forth these messengers, who, in the myth, are called Gijigouai, which means "those who make the day," and they light the world.

It was very large and handsome; strange medicine animals were painted on it.

" "I am not afraid of them," replied Paul, with his head in the medicine cupboard, "any more than I am afraid of a horse.

" "Doctor," said Miss Panney, "if there is anything about all this in your medicine books, perhaps you know more than I do, and you can go on and talk; but you know there is not, and you know, too, that I was a very sensible middle-aged woman when you were toddling around in frocks and running against people.

It is well perhaps to advise the traveller to supply himself with a small medicine box which can be purchased in Juneau, but it is not necessary if he enjoys good rugged health.

I could hear her rattling the bottles in the medicine cabinet hanging on this very wall.

The experiment will be more successful if the rubber bulb attached to an ordinary medicine-dropper be removed, and the tapering glass tube be slipped on to the outer end of the rubber tube attached to the faucet.

The medicine girl.

Mahtawa raised his head suddenly, and said, pointing to the silver rifle, "Mahtawa wishes to have the two-shotted medicine gun.

That summer there were medicine pedlers working on all the boats, selling a kind of stuff they called "thieves' vinegar" which was claimed to be a medicine that was used in the old country somewhere by thieves who robbed the infected houses in safety, protected by this wonderful "vinegar"; and only told how it was made to save their lives when they were about to be hanged.

Another sacred object is the medicine rock of the Marias.

The old chiefs and conjurers were called the "beloved old men"; what in the west we would now call the "medicine squaws," were named "the beloved old women."

"When all had finished eating, a large black stone pipe bowl was filled and fitted to the medicine stem, and the medicine man held it aloft and said: 'Listen, Sun!

The Second Nurse, composed in all her movements, bent over the medicine table.

The Dacotahs worship the medicine-wood, so called from a belief that it was a genius which protected or punished them according to their merits or demerits.