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15 199 The Cherokees think much of dreams, signs &c. Permit me give their interpretation of a few. To dream of seeing any person going towards the west is a sign that that person is soon to die. To dream of seeing any one with eagles feathers in his hand, or to dream of having such feathers, is a sign of mortality. To dream of seeing a house burning is a sign that one or more will soon die in the house. To dream of seeing any one going down a stream of high water is a sign that that person will soon die. To dream of hearing any persons singing and dancing is a sure sign they will soon die. In case some one of the family is sick, to dream of a stream of low clear water is a sure sign the sick person will recover, but to dream of a stream rising & full, either the sick person, or another in the family is to be very sick. To dream of seeing a person dead is a sign of sickness, To dream of a marriage is a sign of sickness. For hunters to dream of having bread, or peaches, or any kind of fruit, is a sign of killing deer. Therefore they pray for such dreams. To dream of seeing a woman is a sign of having soon the ague and fever. For a hunter to dream of having his gun lock broken, is a sign he will kill nothing during the winter. To dream of seeing water rising round a house is a sign of sickness, but if it falls away without running in none will die; yet if some the water runs into the house some will soon die. to dream of clothes being on fire is a sign of sickness, To dream of seeing a person with very clean clothes is a sign that that person will not live long. To dream of fence down is a sign of death. To dream of seeing an eagle or crane on the ground, or flying low is a sign that some one will soon die. In case a sick person dreams of seeing any kind of a snake, it is a sign that that snake occasions his or her sickness

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on commencing a journey should one start a fox, and the fox, after running a few rods turn back & bark, some one of his family or near neighbors would die soon. or suppose one startled? a wolf instead of a fox the sign would be the same. On starting a journey should one see a snake called u ka te ni, it was a sure sign of death in the family before his return. On starting a journey should one see a little na ye hi (spirits living in bluffs) some of his family were to die soon.