LOK SNEWÉDJAS
CHARACTERS
| Blaiwas | Eagle | Lok | Bear | |
| Kai | Rabbit | Snewédjas | Married woman | |
| Kaiutois | Wolf (Gray) | Tskel | Mink | |
| Kékina | Lizard | Tusasás | Skunk | |
| Kískina | Beetle |
Lok Snewédjas was a woman in the daytime and a bear at night. She lived under the ground on the top of a high mountain; nobody could see her either when she was a bear, or a woman.
A big chief lived in the lava bed country between that mountain and Lake Klamath.
One day his son came home without game. The chief was mad and he scolded. The young man felt badly. His mind told him to go to the mountain and forget his troubles. As soon as he started, a great snow-storm came and the wind blew so terribly, that he could hardly walk. When he got to the foot of the mountain, he sat down under a cedar tree and waited.
Once in a while the clouds went away and it stopped snowing; he could see everywhere. Then it snowed again.
Once, when it was bright, the young man looked up and saw, on the mountain, something hanging on a pole. Lok Snewédjas made him see it. She had seen him when he was hunting and had heard him talk to himself and say he had no friends and no place to go. That made her feel sorry for him. She liked him; she wanted him to come to her.
When the young man saw the pole, he said: “I didn’t know that people lived up there. I have been on this mountain many times, but I have never met anybody or seen any house. [[220]]I will go and find out who lives there.” As he started, it stopped snowing; he could see everywhere.