(11)
If blue bottle flies are killed it will bring rain.
(12)
If, in winter, rabbit’s hair is thrown into the smoke of a fire, as it rises in the heat toward the sky, it will cause snow the next day. Children are scolded when they do these things at the wrong time.
(13)
In the body of a fish are various bones which the Indians liken to different utensils and tools in the hunter’s outfit. There is a gun, spear, bow and arrow, knife, paddle, sled, snowshoe, awl, etc. This is merely a saying.
(14)
Another idea is that a “left-handed person is clever, because he fools people by the way he does things.”
(15) Bear Feast.
The following description of the ceremony attending the eating of a bear is based on the accounts of three participants.