According to legend, dream catchers were given to Natives by the spirit of spider. A loop with its center woven in a web like a pattern. It is said in the night air there are good dreams and bad dreams. The good dreams go through the web into the one sleeping. While the bad dreams become hopelessly tangled in the web, where they perish at the first light of dawn.
Some dream catchers have a crystal attached to the hole and feathers tied unto the bottom.
The bad dreams are caught as usual. But the good dreams are caught in the crystal and slowly drip down the feathers and back into the dreamer. Several nations are said to have used dream catchers. Oneida and Ojibway nations may have all used them. But because they are so beautiful, many nations make them today.