Seneca myths and folk tales
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BUFFALO
Historical Society
PUBLICATIONS
VOLUME TWENTY-SEVEN
Edited by Frank H. Severance
THE ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH LEGENDS WERE TOLD. From a Painting Showing the Interior of a Bark Long house, by Richard J. Tucker.
ARTHUR C. PARKER, M.S.
Archæologist, New York State Museum
Life Member, The Buffalo Historical Society
BUFFALO, NEW YORK:
Arthur C. Parker
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SENECA MYTHS AND FOLK TALES
FOREWORD
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
METHODS EMPLOYED IN RECORDING FOLK TALES.
TEXT IN SENECA WITH INTERLINEAR TRANSLATION.
LITERAL TRANSLATION.
FREE TRANSLATION.
OBTAINING CORRECT VERSIONS.
STORY-TELLING CUSTOMS OF THE SENECA.
PHONETIC KEY.
2. NATURE BEINGS.
3. MAGIC BEASTS AND BIRDS.
4. MAGICAL MAN-LIKE BEINGS.
STEREOTYPED OBJECTS AND INCIDENTS.
COMPONENTS OF THE COSMOLOGICAL MYTH.
1. HOW THE WORLD BEGAN.
2. THE BROTHERS WHO CLIMBED TO THE SKY.
4. THE GREAT BEAR CONSTELLATION.
8. THE COMING OF DEATH.
9. ORIGIN OF FOLK STORIES.
14. THE ORIGIN OF THE CHESTNUT TREE.
15. DIVIDED BODY RESCUES A GIRL FROM A WIZARD’S ISLAND.
16. THE ORIGIN OF THE BUFFALO SOCIETY.
17. THE BOY WHO COULD NOT UNDERSTAND.
18. THE BOY WHO LIVED WITH THE BEARS.
21. TWO FEATHERS AND TURKEY BROTHER.
23. HOW TURKEY BOY SQUEEZED THE HEARTS OF A SORCERER AND HIS SEVEN SISTERS.
24. CORN RAINS INTO EMPTY BARRELS.
26. THE HORNED SERPENT RUNS AWAY WITH A GIRL WHO IS RESCUED BY THE THUNDERER.
27. THE GREAT SERPENT AND THE YOUNG WIFE.
29. THE FLINT CHIP THROWER.
30. THE DUEL OF THE DREAM TEST BETWEEN UNCLE AND NEPHEW.
31. THE VAMPIRE SIRENS WHO WERE OVERCOME BY THE BOY WHOSE UNCLE POSSESSED A MAGIC FLUTE.
32. YOUNGER BROTHER ELUDES HIS SISTER-IN-LAW BY CREATING OBSTACLES AND LIBERATES OLDER BROTHER.
33. THE ISLAND OF THE CANNIBAL.
34. THE TWELVE BROTHERS AND THE WRAITH OF THE EVIL WARRIOR.
35. THE CANNIBAL AND HIS NEPHEW.
36. A YOUTH’S DOUBLE ABUSES HIS SISTER.
37. MURDERED DOUBLE SPEAKS THROUGH FIRE.
41. THE RACE OF THE TURTLE AND THE BEAVER.
42. THE WOLF AND THE RACCOON AND HOW THE BIRDS WERE PAINTED.
43. THE CHIPMUNK’S STRIPES.
44. THE RABBIT SONG.
45. THE RABBIT GAMBLER.
46. THE RACCOON AND THE CRABS.
47. THE CRAB’S EYES.
51. THE PARTRIDGE’S SONG.
52. A TALE OF THE DJOGEON OR PYGMIES.
53. BEYOND-THE-RAPIDS AND THE STONE GIANT.
57. HOW A BOY OUTWITTED A NIA’´GWAHE.
59. THE BOY AND THE NIA’´GWAHE.
SENECA BELIEF IN WITCHCRAFT.
60. CONTENTS OF A CHARM HOLDER’S BUNDLE.
67. HOTCIWAHO. (HAMMER IN HIS BELT.)
68. HOW AMERICA WAS DISCOVERED.
70. ORIGIN OF THE FALSE FACE COMPANY.
A. ORIGIN OF THE WORLD.
B. THE WYANDOT CREATION MYTH (Extract).
E. THE SOCIETY THAT GUARDS THE MYSTIC POTENCE.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
