SECOND SERIES.

1. England.
2. Scandinavian.
3. Russian.
4. North American Indian.

“They transport us into a romantic world.”—Times.

PREFATORY NOTE.

It might have been expected that the Indians of North America would have many Folklore tales to tell, and in this volume I have endeavoured to present such of them as seemed to me to best illustrate the primitive character and beliefs of the people. The belief, and the language in which it is clothed, are often very beautiful. Fantastic imagination, magnanimity, moral sentiment, tender feeling, and humour are discovered in a degree which may astonish many who have been apt to imagine that advanced civilisation has much to do with the possession of such qualities. I know of nothing that throws so much light upon Indian character as their Folk-tales.

CONTENTS

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Moowis,[1]
The Girl who Married the Pine-tree,[9]
A Legend of Manabozho,[11]
Pauppukkeewis,[15]
The Discovery of the Upper World,[33]
The Boy who Snared the Sun,[37]
The Maid in the Box,[41]
The Spirits and the Lovers,[45]
The Wonderful Rod,[54]
The Funeral Fire,[56]
The Legend of O-na-wut-a-qut-o,[63]
Manabozho in the Fish’s Stomach,[69]
The Sun and the Moon,[72]
The Snail and the Beaver,[75]
The Strange Guests,[79]
Manabozho and his Toe,[88]
The Girl who Became a Bird,[90]
The Undying Head,[92]
The Old Chippeway,[113]
Mukumik! Mukumik! Mukumik!,[116]
The Swing by the Lake,[119]
The Fire Plume,[123]
The Journey to the Island of Souls,[129]
Machinitou, the Evil Spirit,[134]
The Woman of Stone,[144]
The Maiden who Loved a Fish,[147]
The Lone Lightning,[151]
Aggo-dah-gauda,[154]
Piqua,[158]
The Evil Maker,[177]
Manabozho the Wolf,[179]
The Man-fish,[186]