<p id=&quot;d0e6658&quot;>On the second day, by a stupendous effort, we started, but could go only eight miles to a beautiful llano surrounded by oaks and pines. A few ranches are all that remains of the village that once existed here. On one of them lived a rich Cora who had married a Tepehuane woman. All Coras get rich, the Indians here assert, because they know better how to appease the gods. They submit to fasting and restrictions for a month, or even a year, and then go &quot;to the richest mountain the ancient people knew.&quot; The master of the mountain comes out and the two make a bargain, the Cora agreeing to pay for the cattle, deer, corn, and other possessions, with men that he kills. The belief that the mountains are the masters of all riches—of money, cattle, mules, sheep, and shepherds—is common among the tribes of the Sierra Madre.</p>
<p id=&quot;d0e6660&quot;>When it devolves upon a Cora to make good his agreement and kill a man, he makes from burnt clay, strips of cloth, etc., a small figure of the victim and then with incantations puts thorns through the head or stomach, to make the original suffer. He may even represent the victim on horseback, and place the figure upside down to give him pain. Sometimes a Cora makes a figure of the animal he wants, forming it of wax or burned clay, or carving it from tuff, and deposits <span class=&quot;pageno&quot; style=&quot;position: absolute; left: 1636.58px; height: 0em; width: 266.406px; text-align: right; text-indent: 0em; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.2em; color: #aaaaaa;&quot;><a id=&quot;d0e6662&quot;></a>[486]</span>it in a cave in the mountain. For every cow, deer, dog, or hen wanted, he has to sacrifice a corresponding figure.</p>