B: Dreamed
This country was full of coyotes. Then we became Mohaves, human beings: the coyotes turned into people. There is a place called Hukθara-ny-enyêve, a small mountain south of Mukiampeve, Needles Peak.[18] There is where Kwayū[19] lived, at Hukθara-ny-enyêve: he belonged to this country. Whenever he saw a child, he seized it, stuck it under his belt, and took it home. There he would put them into a hole in the rock, pound them up, and eat them. Sometimes he ate them raw, sometimes he roasted them in the fire. All the people were afraid of him.
[18] Mukiampeve is the standard form of the name; Okiampeve is what the informant was understood as saying.
[19] Kwayū means a meteor or fireball, usually conceived of as a monster or man-eater. He recurs in the Cane story.
Now the Crayfish, Hal(y)kutāṭa,[20] killed Kwayū. He was little, but when he became angry, he made himself into a big man. So all the people were saved. If Crayfish had not killed him, Kwayū would have eaten everyone up. After killing him, Crayfish took him far south to the ocean where he lived and ate him up. So there was no more Kwayū in this land here.
[20] Hal(y)kutāta was described as a "bug" as long as a finger, with long legs, a back like a scorpion, living in the water in sloughs, but not in the river: it must be a crayfish.
Kwayū was Coyote.[21]
[21] This statement is in line with the name of the place where he lived, as given two paragraphs before.