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The Traditions of the Hopi, by H.R. Voth, [1905], at sacred-texts.com


92.--THE SPARROW HAWK AND THE GRASSHOPPERS.

Sparrow Hawk has children and hunts Grasshoppers and Prayer Beetles. Their mothers are very unhappy. Grasshopper mother sneaks (tit of house and is caught by Sparrow Hawk. She moans about her children and Sparrow Hawk releases her. Hopi children come and catch little Grasshoppers. Grass hopper mother tells them to go and catch young Sparrow Hawks. They go and take young Sparrow Hawks to village.


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