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Attusah was obviously an impostor. Many, however, had full faith in his supernatural power, and often he seemed to believe in his own spectral account of himself.
"_Tsida-wei-yu_! " (I am a great ada-wehi! [6]) the young warrior would cry with his joyous grandiloquent gesture, waving his many braceleted right arm at full length as he held himself proudly erect. "_Akee-o-hoosa! Akee-o-hoosa! "_ (I am dead). Then triumphantly, "And behold I am still here."