winaveat

Near the village of Wini (Winaveat, on the Riverside edge of Corona, in Riverside County) there was a rock upon a hill near the place called Teytaki. In this rock lived a spirit named Tuit. A little girl in this village, who was about three years old, cried incessantly, until her mother threw her out of the house. The spirit took the child to his house that night. He named the child Pahalali.

Pahalali asked him three times, ‘"Who is my mother?" One day the girl said to Mingat, I wait to go see my mother. Mingat replied we can go, but the spirit may kill you. I will make two holes for you. You go under the water toward Ternescal. The girl went as directed and arrived at Wini, People asked her where she had come from. "My mother told me when I was small that spirit would get me," she replied. "He did get me, and raised me.

Mingat the Gopher said, tell your mother to put you in a bundle and place you in the Big House. Have all the people with you. The spirit will look for you and try to kill you. The girl repeated to her mother what Mingat told her. The woman then put her daughter in a bundle and placed her in the Big House. The chief prepared a feast. Mingat again instructed, saying, tell your mother to heat a rock very hot. When the spirit asks for you, tell him to open his mouth to receive you. Then shove the hot rock into his mouth.

After dark the spirit came home and asked for Pahalali. He asked Mingat about her. Mingat told him, "I saw her playing here but a short while ago. The spirit then threw into air a magic basket or nea’t to determine in which direction Pahalali had gone. The spirit followed the basket toward the big House in which Pahalali was concealed.
The spirit arrived at the door and asked for Pahalali. The girl’s mother said, "Open your mouth for Pahalali. Then she threw the hot rock, a red-hot arrow- straightening stone (taye’nihwa’t) into his mouth.

Tuit shouted ""Haaa !" in pain. He groaned,he ran all around, he kicked the house, and then he stamped his foot and killed all the people. Only one old woman and a dog survived, who were covered with a basket. The surviving old woman cried as she searched for her people, but she could do nothing. She wandered here and there. While the old woman vas away, the dog became a boy and killed some rabbits. The woman returned and asked the dog, "Who killed the rabbits?" The dog only wagged his tail in response. After two months, the old woman became quite strong, walking a long way to look for her people. Upon her return she saw a young man at her dwelling. The young man was really her dog. As she approached him, she became a young girl.
The two married, and the village of Wini was repopulated. Some say the spirit Tuit had been killed by the hot stone at the same time as he destroyed the village, but some say he got the girl back and took her away to his home again. But the Coyote was watching and stole the girl, and the spirit did not get her again.

Pakuma(Santos Manuel), told to John Harrington, 300-301.