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The Mountain Spirits and the Cripples, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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23. The Mountain Spirits and the Cripples as told by Duncan Belacho
  
Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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Ethnological Note 1
This story is usually told of a boy and his sister. The former was blind; his sister was legless.
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Ethnological Note 2
Due to the rigors of a nomadic, hunting, and gathering life, and the insufferable handicap which a crippled member placed on a family, the helplessly deformed were sometimes disposed of or abandoned as described. [See also Chiricahua text 21.]
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