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Myths of the Modocs

Note 1 — HOW SICKNESS CAME INTO THE WORLD

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“I will always be good, unless somebody makes me mad,” said Wéwenkee. “In later times people will like my skin and want to take it. Maybe they will throw dirt at me so they can hide my face and eyes from them, but they can do me no harm. I will not be a servant to any one; but those who go to the swimming ponds on the mountains, and those who are willing to travel at night, I will like. I will give them my skin, and the earth will give me another.1 I shall never appear to any one, who is not a doctor.”

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