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Updated: May 15, 2025
All the relations of the deceased then sit round it for about twenty-four hours; they tear their clothes; run knives through the fleshy parts of their arms, but there is no sacrifice which they can make so great as cutting off their hair. The men go in mourning by painting themselves black and they do not wash the paint off until they take the scalp of an enemy, or give a medicine-dance.
Beeg medicine-dance dere see heem once long tam' 'go leetle boy me beeg medicine Indian debbil stay dere Indian much scare' only go when mak' beeg tam' beeg medicine." "Let me see if I get you, Jerry. A bad trail leads half a day north from the Bow at Kananaskis to Ghost River, eh?" Jerry nodded. "Then up the Ghost River westward through the bearded trees half a day to the Manitou Rock?
The gifts thus acquired were then, in the name of the deceased, distributed among the persons present. On one occasion, Aquipaguetin killed a bear, and invited the chiefs and warriors to feast upon it. They accordingly assembled on a prairie, west of the river; and, the banquet over, they danced a "medicine-dance."
At intervals, on the very verge, evening fires were built, throwing streamers of crimson flicker on the lake. Naked pappooses gathered around these at play. But on an open flat betwixt encampment and village rose a lighted tabernacle of blankets stretched on poles and uprights; and within this the adult Indians were crowded, celebrating the orgy of the medicine-dance.
In what has been said as to the Greek Mysteries, I have regarded them as of native origin. I have exhibited rites of analogous kinds in the germ, as it were, among savage and barbaric communities. Frazer's "Golden Bough." I have also indicated the closest of all known parallels to the Eleusinian in a medicine-dance and legend of the Pawnees.
Then came a grand medicine-feast, followed by a medicine-dance of women. Le Mercier says that a Huron who had been to Quebec once asked him the use of the vase of water at the door of the chapel. Feasts were held for him, at which, to do him honor, each guest gorged himself like a vulture.
Unless your guardian is more powerful than the guardians of those who have gone before you, you will share a similar fate to theirs. Be careful to provide yourself with the invisible bones they use in the medicine-dance, for without these you can not succeed."
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