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Show 38 bear victim can manage to l i e perfectly s t i l l , the bear may quit attacking and go away. But in her terror she couldn't stop screaming as the bear clawed and bi t her chest, thighs, and back. She says, "I don't think I ever t r i e d to fight her, but I was yelling and screaming a whole l o t , until I couldn't yell anymore. After I ' d gotten to the point vihere I viasn't making any noise or moving any longer, she must have thought I was dead, so she l e f t . As she was leaving, she tore off part of my scalp. I don't know whether she used her teeth or her claws, but I think i t vias her claws." Marianna lay torn and bleeding fifteen feet from the t r a i l , her blond hair matted viith blood, several ribs smashed and massive viounds gaping. Within five minutes the f i r s t members of the hiking group from Texas came along the t r a i l toward her. "I could hear the people coming," Marianna says. "I could hear them talking before they got to me. I yelled something and I saw them walking toviard me, but I couldn't see them clearly." Two men from the group hurried back to the t r a i l head to drive for help. Others did vihat they could for Marianna, vietting her bandana and pressing i t to her l i p s , covering her viith a blanket to keep the flies away. At the suggestion of one of the hikers, most of the group stood at the side of the t r a i l yelling and singing to frighten off the bear, although by that time the sow and cubs viere probably a good distance away. "I really didn't think I was going to make i t , " Marianna remembers, "because I kept having trouble breathing. The people who helped me were praying, and they talked to me, and they went through my pack to look |