The Curse of the Jindas " The Curse of the Jindas " is the seventh episode of the of " " . Written by Bob Carrau and directed by Raymond Jafelice , the episode originally aired on ABC on October 19 , 1985 . Plot summary . Wicket , after saving a lot of trading material , joins his friends , Kneesaa , Latara , Paploo , Teebo , Widdle , and Weechee in going to a merchant to trade . On the way they encounter a couple of Jindas who invite them to a waterfall the group has rested at . The Ewoks deny for they must go to the merchant first . At the waterfall , Trebla , the group ' s magician urges Bondo , the leader , to leave , but Bondo denies . Suddenly many rocks begin to levitate and fly at the Jindas who run to their Awor . At the merchant ' s , Mooth , the trader , sends two of his speedy employees out to unload Wicket ' s cart . Wicket also traded Monmon seed s , but hadn ' t decided on what to trade for . Mooth eventually convinced him to get a lucky rock , which Wicket gives to Kneesaa . On the journey back , a group of Skandit s attack , capturing the Ewoks . They bring them back to the Skandits ' home and lock them in a root cell . After a while the Travelling Jindas arrive to perform . In an attempt to get help from them , Latara , an old friend of Bondo ' s , begins to play on her flute , which gets Bondo ' s attention and he goes over to the cage . This makes the Skandits angry so Bondo keeps Latara from saying anything and walks away , upsetting Latara . Later at the show , some dancers come over to the root cell along with Trebla . The dancers cause the guards to pass out , and Trebla unlocks the cage door . A line of people under a snake - like team costume come up . The Ewoks get under the costume and walk over to the show . They start to growl scaring the Skandit guards at the side of the stage , and walk onto the stage scaring the Skandits in the audience . They walk in circles on the stage growling like an animal , but Widdle steps on Weechee ' s foot , and everyone begins to loose balance . Everyone accept Wicket falls , pulling apart the costume . They all run , and the other Jindas have already gotten the Awor racing away . The Skandits right behind them , the Ewoks swing to the top of one of the Awor . When they return home , all of the Ewoks ' relatives celebrate , but the fun is cut short when rocks begin hurling themselves at the Jindas again . Chief Chirpa gets all of the Jindas up into the raised walkways of Bright Tree Village , and raise the stairway so the low - hovering rocks can ' t get up . They begin discussing this curse that the Jindas keep mentioning with Logray . Bondo ques some of the other Jindas to begin playing and singing a song . The song describes how the Jindas never used to travel but instead were farmers . They were protected by a mysterious Rock Wizard who only asked for food in return . But when they made a bad meal , the Rock Wizard thought they were trying to poison him and cast them out of his land , cursing them with the rock beings if the ever returned to his land or if the ever stopped for too long , explaining why they always got lost . Chief Chirpa decides to help them get home , so Logray and his apprentice Teebo , go down with the rocks and begin to chant . Suddenly animals come from all around tying up the rocks with vines and tying them to trees . They lower the stairs , and when Bondo goes down to the ground , the rocks begin to bounce but soon give up . This draws the Rock Wizard out to the village where he causes some chaos , angry Logray broke the curse . Kneesaa tries to help and when the Rock Wizard sees her he realizes she has his missing tooth , Kneesaa ' s lucky rock . He takes it and puts it back in and feels better for the replacement . When Wicket explains that the tooth is supposed to be a good luck charm , the amused Rock Wizard notes that idea is apparently true considering it was a stroke of luck that it happened to be his missing tooth . Now in a far better mood , the Rock Wizard lifts the curse and lets the Jindas return home . Behind the scenes . This is the first episode of the series that shows Logray and his star pupil Teebo interacting with the wild creatures from the forest of Endor , even before the young Teebo becoming Logray ' s apprentice at the episode " Sunstar vs . Shadowstone " .