href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@48635@[email protected]#Page_483" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">483

Ghost lore and the future life 484 Meaning of wanaġi 484 Assiniboin beliefs about the dead 485 Ghosts not always visible 485 Death and burial lore 485 Why the Teton stopped burying in the ground 486 Importance of tattooing 486 Ceremonies at the ghost lodge 487 Good and bad ghosts 489 Intercourse with ghosts 489 Ghost stories 489 The ghost husband 489 The solitary traveler 489 The ghost on the hill 489 The Indian who wrestled with a ghost 489 The man who shot a ghost 492 Assiniboin beliefs about ghosts 492 Prayers to the dead, including ancestors 493 Metamorphoses and transmigration of souls 493 Exhortations to absent warriors 493 Mysterious men and women 493 Gopher lore 496 Causes of boils and sores 496 Results of lying, stealing, etc. 497 Secret societies 497 Fetichism 498 Public or tribal fetiches 498 Ordeals, or modes of swearing 499 Sorcery and jugglery 499 Omens 500 Bodily omens 500 Animal omens 500 Omens from dreams 500 CHAPTER VI.—Cults of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Sapona 501 Authorities 501