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The False Shaman, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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33. The False Shaman as told by Sam Kenoi
  
Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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Ethnological Note 1
This is the ceremony for locating the enemy. [See Ethnological note to Chiricahua text 34, note 1].
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Ethnological Note 2
The directions of the shaman cannot be questioned, no matter what taboos, restrictions, and requirements he may pronounce. To do so is to indicate lack of faith, which in itself is fatal to the success of the ceremony.
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Ethnological Note 3
In this ceremony [See Ethnological note to Chiricahua text 34, note 1], the shaman moves his arms about.
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