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Table of Contents

Illustrations

In the Caribbean

The Mysterious Islands

The Buccaneers

The Boat of Phantom Children

Early Porto Rico

The Deluge

How Spaniards were Found to be Mortal

Ponce

Water Caves

How a Dutchman Helped the Spaniards

The Ghost of San Geronimo

Police Activity in Humacao

The Church in Porto Rico

The Mermaids

The Aborigines

The Caribs

Secret Enemies in the Hills

Sacred Shrines

Tobacco

The Two Skeletons of Columbus

Obeah Witches

The Matanzas Obeah Woman

How Havana Got its Market

The Justice of Tacon

The Cited

The Virgin’s Diamond

A Spanish Holofernes

The Courteous Battle

Why King Congo was Late

The Chase of Taito Perico

The Voice in the Inn

In the Pacific

Finding of the Islands

Ancient Faiths of Hawaii

The Giant Gods

The First Fire

The Little People

The Hawaiian Iliad

The Hawaiian Orpheus and Eurydice

The Rebellion of Kamiole

The Japanese Sword

Lo-Lale’s Lament

The Resurrections of Kaha

Hawaiian Ghosts

The Three Wives of Laa

The Misdoing of Kamapua

Pele’s Hair

The Prayer to Pele

Lohiau and the Volcano Princess

A Visit of Pele

The Great Famine

Kiha’s Trumpet

How Moikeha Gained a Wife

The Sailing of Paao

The Wronged Wife

The Magic Spear

Hawaiian Witches

The Cannibals

The Various Graves of Kaulii

The Kingship of Umi

Keaulumoku’s Prophecy

The Tragedy of Spouting Cave

The Grave of Pupehe

The Lady of the Twilight

The Ladrones

Old Beliefs of the Filipinos

Animal Myths

Later Religious Myths and Miracles

Bankiva, the Philippine Pied Piper

The Crab Tried to Eat the Moon

The Conversion of Amambar

The Bedevilled Galleon

Two Runaways from Manila

The Christianizing of Wong

The Devil’s Bridge

The Great Earthquake

Suppressing Magic in Manila

Faith that Killed

The Widow Velarde’s Husband

The Grateful Bandits

Colophon

Availability

Encoding

Revision History

Corrections