Show indian fear lightning no navajo indian will ever make inake a of wood from it a tree that has been struck by lightning or that lie he thinks may have been if such a fire Is made by the irreverent white man the indian will retire to a distance where tic he can neither feel the heat beat nor smell the smoke and will go to sleep in his blanket fireless and rather than eat of food prepared on that kind 1 f tree the navajo believes that 11 I 1 lie he comes within the influence of the lame flame he will absorb some of the essence of the lightning which will sooner or later kill him in the mountains of the navajo country more than half the great pines are scarred by lightning but no wood from them hem t Is used |