d. The woman did not want
to go to the town, because there was no one to watch the dead man. She
could not bury him. The Ibwa [351] noticed that there was a dead man
in the house. He sent one of his sons to get the dead man. When the
Ibwa came in the house, the woman took the headaxes and cut him in
the doorway. The Ibwa went under the house. His father could not
wait for him; he sent his second son and his third son. The boys
could not take the body, because they were afraid of the headaxes,
for the woman had one in each hand. The Ibwa went there. He said
to his sons, "Why do you not take the dead man?" His sons said,
"We could not take him, because if we go up in the house the woman
takes the two headaxes and tries to kill us." Ibwa went up into the
house; he broke the door of the house. He said to the woman, "Now I
am your husband." The Ibwa took the two ears of the dead man; he ate
one and gave the other to the woman to chew, like betel-nut, to see
the sign. The sign of the saliva was good. He made the woman's two
breasts into one in the center of her chest. He took her to his house.

50

The stems of the _alangtin_ are good charms against the spirits of
the dead, and are often worn concealed in the hair or hat.

There were two brothers, and one died. The other went to hunt and
killed a deer. While he had it over the fire to singe, his dead
brother's spirit came to him. [352] Then the man began to cut the meat
into small pieces, and as fast as he cut it up, the spirit ate it; and
as fast as he ate it, the meat came out of his anus. When the meat was
almost all gone, the man became very much afraid and started to run,
and the spirit chased him. When he ran where some _alangtin_ grew,
the spirit stopped and said, "If you had not gone to the _alangtin_,
I would have eaten you also."

51

One person was dead in a town. They buried him under the house. They
did not put _banal_ [353] and a plow iron over the grave. The Ibwa
went there and saw there was no _banal_ on the grave, so he was not
afraid. He went there and took the dead man. He put one foot of the
dead man over each shoulder and let him hang down over his back. A
man saw him while he was walking in the street. The man told the
people in the town what he had seen. The people did not believe it
and went to see the grave. No dead man there, only the clothes and mat.

52

It is good to put some branches of trees in the ground near your
head whe