The medicine-woman's hatred was still increased by the fact that her former husband, Tyope, was a leading Koshare.

To his influence she attributed the insults which the jesters offered her, and she saw in the whole group but a crowd of willing tools handled by her personal enemy.
Since Say's illness coincided with the beginning of the rainy season, the principal activity of the Koshare immediately preceded the outbreak of the fever.

Urged by hate and desire for revenge, Shotaye combined the two facts in her mind, and drew the conclusion that the disease was due to the magic power of the Koshare, directed against Say for some unknown reason and purpose.
If the Koshare were guilty, it was not only useless, it was dangerous even, to call upon any chayan for relief.

The Delight Makers were the chief assistants of the shamans in any public ceremony, and indispensable to them in many ways.

Beside, Say Koitza could not have applied to a chayan without her husband's knowledge, and that husband was a Koshare.
So after explaining to the invalid her suspicions and inferences, she suggested direct inquiry about the principals in the supposed evil actions against her.