Part 1. Material Collected by Jeremiah Curtin

FICTION

1. [The sister and her six elder brothers] 75
2. [The child and his uncle] 81
3. [Djogeon and his uncle] 84
4. [The woman who married a great serpent] 86
5. [The ghost woman and the hunter] 90
6. [Hahnowa and his forces on the warpath] 92
7. [The old man’s grandson and the chief of the deserted village] 95
8. [The man who married a buffalo woman] 98
9. [A woman and her bear lover] 102
10. [The fox and the rabbit] 105
11. [The snake with two heads] 106
12. [A hunter pursued by Genonsgwa] 106
13. [The grandmother and her granddaughter] 111
14. [The woman who became a snake from eating fish] 111
15. [Gaqga makes a journey and kills many people] 113
16. [Ohohwa and the two sisters] 115
17. [A great snake battle] 117
18. [The Ongwe Ias and his younger brother] 118
19. [Haieñdoñnis and Yenogeauns] 121
20. [The man with a panther-skin robe and his brother with a turkey-skin robe] 127
21. [Deadoeñdjadases and the old woman’s grandson] 135
22. [Hatʻhondas (the Listener)] 139
23. [The story of the Ohohwa people] 144
24. [The chestnut tree guarded by the seven sisters] 147
25. [The otter’s heart and the claw fetishes] 151
26. [The seven sisters who produce wampum] 154
27. [The forsaken infant and Gaha] 160
28. [The old man and the boy] 162
29. [The story of the girls who went for a husband] 166
30. [The creation of man] 168
31. [Ganiagwaihegowa] 169
32. [The man who became a fish, and a Ganiagwaihe] 169
33. [A dead man speaks to his mother through the fire] 172
34. [The potent boy] 176
35. [The faithless wife and the three old men] 180
36. [The Dagwanoenyent and her husband] 187
37. [A raccoon story] [[40]]191
38. [The self-sacrifice of two dogs for their master] 193
39. [The three young women] 195
40. [Hinon and the Seneca warriors] 197
41. [Hodadeñon and Yenyentʻhwus] 199
42. [The uncle and his nephew] 223
43. [Hinon saves a woman from suicide] 228
44. [The crawfish and the raccoon] 229
45. [The race between the turtle and the bear] 229
46. [The woman who became a man-eater through the orenda of her husband’s dogs] 231
47. [Ganyadjigowa] 236
48. [Hadentʻheni and Hanigongendatʻha] 251
49. [Dagwanoenyent] 261
50. [The shaman and his nephew] 262
51. [The horned snake and the young woman] 268
52. [The man pursued by his sister-in-law] 270
53. [The story of bloody hand] 273
54. [The seven stars of the dipper] 276
55. [The story of the two brothers] 277
56. [Hodionskon] 283
57. [The cannibal uncle, his nephew, and the nephew’s invisible brother] 285
58. [Doonongaes and Tsodiqgwadon] 296

LEGENDS

59. [Genonsgwa] 341
60. [The grandmother and her grandson] 347
61. [Heart squeezing and the dance of naked persons] 355
62. [Hotʻho, the Winter God] 356
63. [Sʻhagodiyoweqgowa and his three brothers] 357
64. [The moose wife] 361
65. [Sʻhagodiyoweqgowa] 365
66. [The porcupine’s grandson and the bear] 365
67. [Genonsgwa] 369
68. [Hinon Hohawaqk and his grandmother] 372
69. [Hagowanen and Otʼhegwenhda] 376
70. [Okteondon and Haieñtʻhwus. Part I] 389
71. [Okteondon and Haieñtʻhwus. Part II] 399
72. [Uncle and nephew and the white otters] 401
73. [Deoyadastatʻhe and Hodjowiski] 406
74. [A genesis tradition] 409
75. [The two brothers and the mice fetishes] 415
76. [The orphan] 417
77. [The great worm and Hinon] 420
78. [The chipmunk and the bear] 421
79. [The great white beaver and the Lake of the Enchanted Waters] 422

TRADITIONS

80. [Ganon, the Seneca war chief] 428
81. [Hatcinondon: A historical tradition] 432
82. [Godiont and the Sʻhagodiyoweqgowa] 436
83. [Sʻhagodiyoweqgowa] [[41]]437
84. [Sʻhagodiyoweqgowa] 437
85. [Genonsgwa] 437
86. [Genonsgwa] 439
87. [Genonsgwa] 440
88. [Genonsgwa] 440
89. [Genonsgwa] 441
90. [Bald Eagle sends Mud Turtle around the world] 450
91. [The poor hunter and Djogeon] 452
92. [The man killed by the three hunters] 453
93. [Hinon and the Iroquois] 456

TALES

94. [A shaman’s deed] 457
95. [Sʻhagodiyoweqgowa (modern)] 457
96. [Sʻhagodiyoweqgowa] 458
97. [The vampire skeleton] 458

MYTHS