CONTENTS

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Foreword[ix]
Introduction[xvii]
I.FUNDAMENTAL FACTORS IN SENECA FOLK LORE[1]
Basic Premises[3]
Gods, Major Spirits and Folk-Beasts[5]
Nature Beings[10]
Magic Beasts and Birds[16]
Magical Man-like Beings[18]
II.THEMES AND MATERIALS[23]
Stereotyped Objects and Incidents[27]
Components of the Cosmological Myth[33]
III.THE ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH THE LEGENDS WERE TOLD[37]
IV.WHEN THE WORLD WAS NEW[57]
1.How the World Began[59]
2.The Brothers who Climbed into the Sky[74]
3.The Death Panther[78]
4.The Great Bear Constellation[81]
5.The Seven Brothers of the Star Cluster[83]
6.The Seven Star Dancers[86]
7.The Coming of Spring[88]
8.The Coming of Death[92]
V.BOYS WHO DEFIED MAGIC AND OVERCAME IT[95]
9.Origin of Folk Stories[97]
10.The Forbidden Arrow and the Quilt of Men’s Eyes[101]
11.Corn Grinder, the Grandson[108]
12.He-Goes-to-Listen[116]
13.Hatondas, the Listener, Finds a Wife[122]
14.The Origin of the Chestnut Tree[128]
15.Divided Body Rescues a Girl[133]
16.The Origin of the Buffalo Society[137]
17.The Boy who could not Understand[142]
18.The Boy who Lived with the Bears[147]
19.The Seventh Son[154]
20.The Boy who Overcame all Magic by Laughter[159]
VI.TALES OF LOVE AND MARRIAGE[171]
21.Two Feathers and Turkey Brother[173]
22.Two Feathers and Woodchuck Leggings[184]
23.Turkey Boy Squeezed the Hearts of Sorcerers[200]
24.Corn Rains into Empty Barrels[205]
25.Twentgowa and the Mischief Maker[208]
26.The Horned Serpent Runs Away with a Girl[218]
27.The Great Serpent and the Young Wife[223]
28.Bushy Head the Bewitched Warrior[228]
29.The Flint Chip Thrower[235]
VII.HORROR TALES OF CANNIBALS AND SORCERERS:[239]
30.The Duel of the Dream Test[241]
31.The Vampire Sirens[253]
32.Younger Brother Eludes His Sister-in-Law[262]
33.The Island of the Cannibal[269]
34.The Twelve Brothers and the Wraith[278]
35.The Cannibal and His Nephew[284]
36.A Youth’s Double Abuses His Sister[290]
37.Murdered Double Speaks Through Fire[293]
38.The Vampire Corpse[298]
VIII.TALES OF TALKING ANIMALS:[301]
39.The Man who Exhaled Fire[303]
40.The Turtle’s War Party[305]
41.The Race of the Turtle and the Beaver[309]
42.The Wolf and the Raccoon[312]
43.The Chipmunk’s Stripes[314]
44.The Rabbit Song[315]
45.The Rabbit Gambler[317]
46.The Raccoon and the Crabs[319]
47.The Crab’s Eyes[321]
48.How the Squirrel Gave a Blanket, etc.[322]
49.The Chickadee’s Song[325]
50.The Bird Woman[326]
51.The Partridge’s Song[328]
IX.TALES OF GIANTS, PYGMIES AND MONSTER BEARS:[329]
52.A Tale of the Djogeon or Pygmies[331]
53.Beyond-the-Rapids and the Stone Giant[334]
54.The Animated Finger[337]
55.The Stone Giant’s Battle[340]
56.The Boy and the False Face[342]
57.How a Boy Outwitted a Nia’´gwahe[344]
58.Nia’´gwahe, the Mammoth Bear[349]
59.The Boy and the Nia’´gwahe[358]
X.TRADITIONS:[363]
Seneca Belief in Witchcraft[365]
60.Contents of a Charm Holder’s Bundle[368]
61.Contents of a Witch Bundle[369]
62.Overcoming a Witch[370]
63.The Scorned Witch Woman[372]
64.Catching a Witch Bundle[376]
65.Witch with a Dog Transformation[378]
66.Witch Steals Children’s Hearts[380]
67.Hotciwaho (Hammer in His Belt)[382]
68.How America was Discovered[383]
69.Origin of the Charm Holder’s Medicine Society[386]
70.Origin of the False Face Company[394]
71.Origin of the Long House[403]
72.Dead Timber, a Tradition of Albany[407]
XI.APPENDIX:[409]
A.Origin of the World[411]
B.The Wyandot Creation Myth[417]
C.An Interview with “Esq.” Johnson by Mrs. Asher Wright[421]
D.Emblematic Trees in Iroquoian Mythology[431]
E.The Society that Guards the Mystic Potence[445]