Dream Catchers
In a dream I went to the mountains and built a house. There came a tarantula with a great long beard. It pulled some of the hair from its body and laid it on the ground to represent a sick man. Then it sang: "Come and stand beside me, Boy, and I will teach you how to cure sickness. I blow my breath over the sick one, and he is well."
| | A Mohave shaman's dream, related
by a shaman named Ahweyama. From
The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis. Northwood, Mass.: Plimpton Press, 1908.
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