cheera-taghe

Therefore, when he suddenly saw the cheera-taghe he saw them quite plainly.

The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

Both the cheera-taghe were armed with pistol as well as tomahawk and scalping-knife.

The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

Then, notwithstanding his age and his fierce rheumatism, notwithstanding his long and cumbrous robe of buffalo skin, the skirt of which he seemed to clutch with difficulty, he plunged into the icy water, waded out to the young man, handed him the ball-sticks, and regained the bank just as the other cheera-taghe standing at the margin of the river began the incantations supposed to influence the success of the competition.

The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

For among the Indians the lives of the weather-prophets were not safe from the aggrieved agriculturists, and there are authentic cases in which the cheera-taghe suffered death by tribal law as false conjurers.

The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

The strange disappearance of its cheera-taghe was canvassed again and again, reaching no surmise of the truth.

The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

Charlestown, who, promptly acting upon it, solved the mystery of the fate of the cheera-taghe.

The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

The two cheera-taghe, the shadow of their feather-crested heads in the moonlight on the sand of the grotto almost as distinct as the reality, spoke suddenly to each other, and the discomfited gold-seekers, who had learned to comprehend to a certain extent the language, perceived with dismay the sarcasm that lengthened their suspense.

The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

This thought was uppermost in his mind for several days, even when he went with the other cheera-taghe of Ioco to share in the conjurations and incantations of the preliminary ceremonials of the Ball-Play, without which success would never be anticipated, for a great match between the towns of Ioco and Niowee was impending.

The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

There, sitting like stone figures one on each side of the narrow portal, were the two cheera-taghe of the town, silent, motionless, watching with eyes how long alert, listening with ears how discerningly attentive, it is impossible to divine.

The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

Cherokee, one of the cheera-taghe of the town, detached himself from it and came toward him.

The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886