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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION----BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY.
Page. CHAPTER I.--GODS AND OTHER SUPERNATURAL BEINGS 51 Hi-nun destroying the giant animals 54 A Seneca legend of Hi-nun 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 The hunter and his faithless wife 90 The charmed suit 92 The boy and the corn 96 The lad and the chestnuts 97 The guilty hunters 99 Mrs. Logan's story 100 The hunter and his dead wife 103 A sure revenge 104 Traveler's jokes 107 Kingfisher and his nephew 108 The wild-cat and the white rabbit 110