--- title: A Navajo Medicine Chant — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · full text with trees description: A Navajo Medicine Chant, «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The Navajos give a medicine dance and chant a long song when a sick person asks for this service. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Wigwam stories told by North American…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/) / A Navajo Medicine Chant # A Navajo Medicine Chant A Navajo Medicine Chant of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole text, 30 sentences and 345 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. The Navajos give a medicine dance and chant a long song when a sick person asks for this service.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") This chant is the story in song of the capture and escape of a young Navajo brave.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") He is helped by his people’s gods, who are like the creatures that live in his own country.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") This is the part of the chant telling of his escape:[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") “He came to the house of the Butterfly.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") It was filled with butterflies and rainbows.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") “Kacluge, the great Butterfly, welcomed him to his lodge.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") His wife took the young brave by the hand.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") He was welcome.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") “She left the room, but came back with a great pearl dish in her hand.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") It was a sea-shell filled with water.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") She gave him soapweed.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") He washed and was white.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") He dried his hands with meal and painted his face with white earth; then he was fair as a white man.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") “Kacluge gave him fine white moccasins.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") He gave him a collar of beaver skin, and a whistle to call for help.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") “His arms looked like wings, for plumed prayer-sticks were fastened to them in the Butterfly’s lodge.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") “The young man was no longer tired.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") He was strong again, and like a white butterfly in beauty.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") Kacluge fed him with white corn meal mixed with pure water.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") He slept in the house of the Butterfly.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") “In the morning the young Navajo stepped on the white sand.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") The wife of the Butterfly put two burning lines of white lightning before his feet.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") He stepped upon these, and his white moccasins fastened to the lightning.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") “‘Now,’ said the Butterfly, ‘the lightning is yours; follow where it leads.’[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") “With one step he stood on a high hill.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") He saw a flash of lightning fill the valley.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") “‘It is the trail I must follow,’ said the young Navajo.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") Across the valley, on the trail of the lightning, he ran to the mountains; and now, pure in face, in heart, and with white feet, the lightning led him home.”[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") Adapted from Powell’s Report.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [Chief Logan and Others](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/22/) - next →: [How the Cave People Found Dry Land on the Earth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/24/) - ↑ back to [Wigwam stories told by North American Indians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/)