Iktome and the Legend of Dreamcatcher - Lakota A long time ago, when the world was young, an old Shaman of the Lakota tribe, being on the top of a high mountain, it had a vision. Iktome, a large rascal and Master of wisdom, appeared to him in the form of spider and it spoke to him in crowned language. While it spoke, Iktome the spider took the circle of willow that the old one carried with oneself and who was decorated with feathers, hair of the horse, small pearls, sacrificial offerings and it started to weave a fabric inside the circle. It spoke with old about the cycles about the life, of how one starts to live when one is small, while passing afterwards from the infantile age at the adulthood. Finally one ages and somebody takes care of us as if we were child again, by supplementing the cycle. "But", Iktome says while it continued to weave the cobweb "for each period of the existence there are many forces, some good, other bad. If you listenings the good forces, they will guide you towards the right direction, but if you listenings the bad forces, you go in the bad direction and that could damage you. Thus these forces could help you, or interfere with the harmony of Nature. While Iktome spoke, it continued to weave. When it finishes speaking, it gave the fabric to old and it says "the cobweb is a perfect circle with a hole in the medium, uses it to help your people to join his goals, by employing well the ideas, the dreams and the visions. If you believe in the Great mind, the fabric will retain your good visions, while the bad ones from will go away through the central hole ". The old one told the vision with its people and maintaining many Skin-Reds hang a "trap dreams" with the top of the bed to filter the visions. The maid are captured by the fabric and transmitted to the dreamer, the malicious ones slip into the hole and disappear.