“You mustn’t go,” said his grandmother, “I will go.” But the young man went. His wife and grandmother cried: they were afraid. He went to the top of the mountain, where there were large pine trees. He cut two long sticks, then started for home. There were trees and brush on the side of the mountain. As Kalaslákkas was coming out of a clump of brush, he heard something following him. He looked and saw a great bear right there near him. He ran to a tree, caught hold of a limb, and was pulling himself up, but the bear sprang at him, pulled him down, and tore him to pieces. When he didn’t come home, the grandmother knew that the dream had come to pass. As soon as it was daylight, they tracked him to the tree where he cut the digging sticks. Not far away the old woman saw crows and she screamed: “There is where my grandson is!” They found only bones. The old woman said to the bones, “You see what this earth can do when she gets mad with us. She has large eyes, she can always see us. You didn’t do as I told you.” They gathered up the bones and put them in their basket. As they went down the mountain, they built fires to let old Kletcowas know that they were in trouble. Kalaslákkas couldn’t be brought to life while his child lived. The mother wanted to have the child killed, but Blaiwas said: “He is too old to kill.” When the boy heard people talk about killing him, he laughed, and said: “Do you think my father would come to life if I died? No, he will never come to life. I will not die, but I will turn to something else, and I will live on the mountains. I killed my father and I shall kill many people. My life will last always in this world.” Right away he lost his mind and went off to the mountains. Every evening he ran around the place where his grandmother lived and called out to her, but he wouldn’t go into the house. Kalaslákkas’ son is on the mountains yet, a little person, so small that he can scarcely be seen, but he often appears to doctors. He can throw an arrow into a person’s body. The arrow is so small that a man cannot see it, but it hits his life and kills him. If Kalaslákkas’ son meets a man, he turns him to a bird or a creeping thing. THE SLOÄ BROTHERS CHARACTERS Blaiwas Eagle Gäk Crow Kéis Rattlesnake Sloä Wildcat Tskel Mink Wámanik Bull Snake Wûlkûtska Marten Five Sloä brothers and their two sisters lived together. All the brothers were married, except the youngest. That one was beautiful; he had long blue hair, and his face was white and bright. His father and mother kept him in a basket under the ground. Every night his mother brought him out, washed his face, combed his hair, and gave him nice things to eat; then put him back before his brothers and sisters were awake.