Julia Starritt: "The Sweating Doctor" (1957)

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[1]	pa'aneekyávaan	uum	pírish	pa'óohruuvtih	káru	hâari	pirish'éepuum
	the.sweating.doctor	3.SG	plant	he.used	also	sometime	plant.roots

The sweating doctor used plants and sometimes plant roots.

[2]	púyava	xás	u'uhyanakôoti	papírish
	you.see	then	he.talked.to	the.plants

And he talked to the plants.

[3]	púyava	xás	ásipak	tumáhyaan
	you.see	then	in.bowl.basket	he.put.them.in

Then he put them in a bowl-basket.

[4]	xás	íshaha	tóo	yvaayramnih
	then	water	he.did	pour.in

And he poured in water.

[5]	xás	kári	aséemfir	tutururáamnihva
	then	then	hot.stones	he.put.in

Then he put in hot stones.

[6]	púyava	xás	vaa	tóo	páramva
	you.see	then	so	he.did	boil

And he boiled them.

[7]	xás	vaa	payíkihar	musúrukam	tóo	thríish
	then	so	the.sick	his.underneath	he.did	set.(liquid).down

Then he set them down underneath the sick person.

[8]	xás	váas	tá	kuniyxôorariv
	then	blanket	PERF	they.covered.with

And they covered (the patient) with a blanket.

[9]	púyava	patukôohaak	púyava	kári	pa'ánav	îim	tá	kunpiyvêesh
	you.see	when.he.used	you.see	then	the.medicine	outdoors	PERF	they.poured.out

When he was finished, they poured the medicine on the ground, outdoors.

[10]	káru	hâari	tu'ísh	káakum	pa'ánav
	also	sometime	he.drank	some	the.medicine

And sometimes (the patient) drank some of the medicine.

[11]	púyava	páy	uum	papirish'ánav	kunkupeekyâahitih
	you.see	this	3.SG	plant.medicine	how.they.made.it

That’s how they made plant medicine.

[12]	xás	pa'aneekyávaan	vúra	kúnish	ikxaréeyav
	then	the.sweating.doctor	Intensive	sort.of	spirit.person

And the doctor was kind of (like) an ikxaréeyav.