Myths of the Cherokee / Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology :: CONTENTS

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I—Introduction 11
II—Historical sketch of the Cherokee 14
III—Notes to the historical sketch 182
IV—Stories and story-tellers 229
V—The myths 239
- Cosmogonic myths 239
  - 1. How the world was made 239
  - 2. The first fire 240
  - 3. Kana?t? and Selu: Origin of corn and game 242
  - 4. Origin of disease and medicine 250
  - 5. The Daughter of the Sun: Origin of death 252
  - 6. How they brought back the Tobacco 254
  - 7. The journey to the sunrise 255
  - 8. The Moon and the Thunders 256
  - 9. What the Stars are like 257
  - 10. Origin of the Pleiades and the Pine 258
  - 11. The milky way 259
  - 12. Origin of strawberries 259
  - 13. The Great Yellow-jacket: Origin of fish and frogs 260
  - 14. The Deluge 261
- Quadruped myths 261
  - 15. The four-footed tribes 261
  - 16. The Rabbit goes duck hunting 266
  - 17. How the Rabbit stole the Otter’s coat 267
  - 18. Why the Possum’s tail is bare 269
  - 19. How the Wildcat caught the turkeys 269
  - 20. How the Terrapin beat the Rabbit 270
  - 21. The Rabbit and the tar wolf 271
  - 22. The Rabbit and the Possum after a wife 273
  - 23. The Rabbit dines the Bear 273
  - 24. The Rabbit escapes from the wolves 274
  - 25. Flint visits the Rabbit 274
  - 26. How the Deer got his horns 275
  - 27. Why the Deer’s teeth are blunt 276
  - 28. What became of the Rabbit 277
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