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46. A Prayer Addressed to the Mountain Spirits, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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46. A Prayer Addressed to the Mountain Spirits as told by David Fatty
  
Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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Ethnological Note 1
This is a prayer to the Mountain Spirits requesting a cure by virtue of their ceremony. In it there is reference to a story of a crippled child and a blind child who were abandoned by their parents, found by the Mountain Spirits, and cured. [See Chiricahua text 23].
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