2. NLi' kEsentem
(cont.)When Coyote had entered the sweat-house and pulled down the door-flap, a man who was suspicious crept up and sat down near the entrance. Presently Coyote stopped singing, and the door-flap began to move in and out. The man lifted it up, and discovered Coyote copulating with the girl. He called out to the people, and they ran to capture him. Coyote rushed out of the sweat-house and ran away naked. They could not catch him; and as they returned, they said, “Well, we have his rich clothes.” They searched for them where he had left them at the sweat-house, but found nothing but a heap of alkali-grass.
The rest of this myth is just the same as in “Traditions of the Thompson River Indians,” No. 2.
3. Coyote and the Cannibal Owl.1
I got this story exactly in the same form as that in the "Traditions of the Thompson River Indians," p. 30, excepting that there is no mention of dogs, and that, after the vomiting contest, Coyote transforms the cannibal into an owl.
4. The Dogs of Coyote and Cannibal.2
This story is the same as that in the “Traditions of the Thompson River Indians,” p. 31. When the Coyote saw the cannibal approaching, leading his large and powerful dog, he defecated and changed his excrement into a dog with arrow-heads for hair, spear-points for ears, and a large double-edged knife for a tail.
5. Coyote's Daughters and their Dogs.
This story is the same as that in the “Traditions of the Thompson River Indians,” pp. 34-36, excepting that the dogs belonged to the women and were four in number, - the Grisly Bear, the Panther, the Wolf, and the Rattlesnake. The cannibal women into whose hands the women fell were four in number, - the Louse, the Flea, the Black Fly, and the Mosquito.
6. Lynx: or, the Sisters who married Coyote and Lynx.3
This story is told the same in all details as that given in the “Traditions of the Thompson River Indians,” No. 7, pp. 36-40.
7. Coyote and his Daughter.
This story is told the same as the Shuswap one of the "Coyote and his Niece," (p. 639) with the exception of the following variation, in which a horse is substituted for the canoe: --
When the Coyote was pretending to die, he told his daughter that a stranger would come to her uncle’s house riding on a white horse. He would be a rich and good man, and she must marry him. After the Coyote had connection with his daughter, he left the house, and after daylight was seen walking along the opposite bank of the river. He called out, “If it is a male child, rear it, if a female child, kill it.”
1. Compare Shuswap p. 632, Hill-Tout, Oannes of the NLakya'pamux, folk Lore, pp. 206, 207.
2. Compare Hill-Tout, Oannes of the Nlakya'pamux, pp. 214, 215.
3. Compare Hill-Tout, The Elk-Maiden, pp. 38-44; also Shuswap; and Uta'mqt, p. 213.
