CONTENTS.
Erminnie A. Smith
Page.
Chapter I.—Gods and other supernatural beings
51
Hi-nu? destroying the giant animals
54
A Seneca legend of Hi-nu? and Niagara
54
The Thunderers
55
Echo God
58
Extermination of the Stone Giants
59
The North Wind
59
Great Head
59
Cusick's story of the dispersion of the Great Heads
62
The Stone Giant's wife
62
The Stone Giant's challenge
63
Hiawatha and the Iroquois wampum
64
Chapter II.—Pigmies
65
The warrior saved by pigmies
65
The pigmies and the greedy hunters
66
The pigmy's mission
67
Chapter III.—Practice of sorcery
68
The origin of witches and witch charms
69
Origin of the Seneca medicine
70
A "true" witch story
71
A case of witchcraft
72
An incantation to bring rain
72
A cure for all bodily injuries
73
A witch in the shape of a dog
73
A man who assumed the shape of a hog
73
Witch transformations
74
A superstition about flies
74
Chapter IV.—Mythologic explanation of phenomena
75
Origin of the human race
76
Formation of the Turtle Clan
77
How the bear lost his tail
77
Origin of medicine
78
Origin of wampum
78
Origin of tobacco
79
Origin of plumage
79
Why the chipmunk has the black stripe on his back
80
Origin of the constellations
80
The Pole Star
81
Chapter V.—Tales
83
Boy rescued by a bear
83
Infant nursed by bears
84
The man and his step-son
85
The boy and his grandmother
86
The dead hunter
87
A hunter's adventures
88
The old man's lesson to his nephew
89
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