Identifier: newmexicolandofd00jame (find matches)
Title: New Mexico, the land of the delight makers; the history of its ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, The Page company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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when Naiuchi and several others were arrested forhanging a woman they had accused of witchcraft. Help came intime to save the woman and troops were stationed in Zuni to protectthe Government teachers while Naiuchi and others were in prisonin Albuquerque, awaiting their trial. During this period the wordsof the writers poor, misguided, but dear and tried, friend, Naiuchi,came often to her: They may imprison me for one month, sixmonths, a year, or forever, but I shall hang the witch who destroysthe life of my child. The case referred to by Mrs. Stevenson is the one Ihave already related, in which Melita was rescued fromNaiuchi. Gushing gives a most graphic account of a witchcrafttrial he attended, and of the way he saved the victimslife. It was well that we returned! The wind-storms were growingworse: day after day they had drifted the scorching sand over thevalley, until the springs were choked up and the river was so drythat a stranger could not have distinguished it from a streamless
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Photograph by George UJiarton James. MELITA, THE DAY AFTER SHE WAS RESCUED FROM HANGING AS A WITCH. Among the Witches 93 arroyo. The nation was threatened with famine. Many were thegrave speculations and councils relative to the meaning of the godsin thus punishing their children. Strange to say, I was given a prominent place in these, and wasoften appealed to, on account of my reputed knowledge of theworld. More and more frequent and desperate grew these gather-ings, until at last a poor fellow named Big Belly was seizedand brought up before them, accused of heresy. The trial — inwhich I had taken no part — lasted a whole day and part of a night,when to my surprise a body of elders summoned me, and placed meat the head of their council. They addressed and treated me aschief counselor of their nation, which office I held thenceforwardfor nearly two years. Among other things, they asked what shouldbe done. I inquired minutely into the case, and learned that the cul-prit had opened

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