[22.] “Stone Skin,” commonly called Stone Coat. Cf. characterization of the stories in the Introduction.
[23.] Her magic power or potency.
[24.] This peculiar finger appears in most stories concerning the so-called Stone Coats, Stone Giants, or Stone Skinned Beings.
[24a.] This is paralleled by the story in the Odyssey about the skins of the cows of the Sun-god becoming alive. These had been killed by the sailors of Odysseus, although he had forbade such an act.
[25.] This is also a Tuscarora story.
[26.] Blackbird, or the Man-Being Blackbird.
[27.] The Robin, or the Man-Being of that name.
[28.] The Sparrow.
[29.] This is in modern usage the Iroquoian name of the Christian devil; it means “dweller in the soil,” i.e., under the surface of the ground.
[30.] Grasshopper.