Seneca myths and folk tales

by Arthur C. Parker

[34]. Related by Edward Cornplanter, 1905.

[35]. He’´noⁿ is the Thunder Spirit.

[36]. Related by Mrs. Aurelia Jones Miller, Seneca, March, 1905. Mrs. Miller said that she had heard this story among the Six Nations of Canada and that she thought it might be of Mohawk origin.

[37]. Meaning flint, properly Hot‘´hagwen’´da’.

[38]. “Dry bones” is a Seneca idiom meaning “lean from lack of food.”

[39]. Related by Edward Cornplanter, and later by George D. Jimerson.

[40]. Related by Edward Cornplanter, 1905.

[41]. Related by Chief Cornplanter, 1904.

[42]. Because he realized that he was scatophagous.

[43]. From Mrs. Aurelia Miller.