The sorcerer or the witch who deliberately attempts to prevent rain-fall becomes the object of intense hatred on the part of all.

The whole cluster of men assembled felt the gravity of the charge.

Horror-stricken, they sat in mute silence, awaiting the result of the investigation which the Shkuy Chayan proceeded to carry on.
"How do you know that the aniehna"-- he emphasized the untranslatable word of insult, and his voice trembled with passion--"has worked such evil to the people ?" The query was directed to the Koshare Naua.

The latter turned to Tyope, saying,-- "Speak, satyumishe nashtio." He squatted again.
The eyes of all, Topanashka's excepted, who did not for a moment divert his gaze from the chief of the Delight Makers, were fixed on Tyope.

He rose and dryly said,-- "I saw when Shotaye Koitza and Say Koitza, the daughter of our father the maseua,"-- everybody now looked at the war-chief in astonishment, dismay, or sorrow; but he remained completely impassive,--"who lives in the abodes of Tanyi hanutsh, caused the black corn to answer their questions.