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Show Creeks' Medicine Man. The medicine man of the Creeks will not eat anything scorched In rooting. In trestlng a gun or arrow wound he as well as the patient will fast four days, only drinking a Utile gruel He will not allow a woman tb look at hla patient tinlll he Is well or deid If his patient dies the med cine man takos a lot of raeflcUo himself In order to clesnse himself from tbe fumes or odor of tho desd The pall bearers, aa no might call those assisting as-sisting In Ihe burial, also tako the samo cleansing procejs And again when an Indian com milted murder, even In self-defense, ho went tt the medicine man and took tha cleansing remedy, claiming tho remedy appeased the crlmo snd the troublo to his mind Tho meillclne man has a horror of women, keeping out of their company as much as pos slble At the full nf each moon It was the custom of tin bucks In drink medicine made by Ihe medicine man to cleanse their system In camp tho Indian killed nothing which was not eatable Indian Journal |