[85.] This is the hell-diver, as some say, or the mudhen, as others say.
[86.] This term means simply “Great Duck.”
[87.] Canada Wild Goose.
[88.] The Great Blue Lizard, a mythical animal, which probably arose from describing an ordinary lizard in terms of the alligator.
[89.] The Humming Bird.
[90.] This is another mythical animal, which appears under various forms in different stories.
[91.] This is the common name of the meteor, the so-called firedragon; but as a Man-Being, the meteor endowed with human life and faculties, it is prominent in many stories.
[92.] The original meaning of this term is “He is master or controller or ruler of it”; i.e., any object of conversation. It is now a name of the God of the Christian Church, and so is applied here to the one whom the earlier story-tellers would have called ‘Teʻharoⁿʻhiawăʹʼgoⁿʼ’, the Master of Life.
[93.] This native term at present is applied to the imported idea, “devil,” which was quite foreign to the thinking of the early Seneca. It is also the name of the muckworm.
[94.] This native term is an epithet applied to a mythical character well known in story-telling. It signifies “The Trickster,” or, more literally, “He who abuses people by craft often.” Cf. Note [155].