Title
Myths of the Iroquois
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Erminnie Adele Smith
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1883
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CONTENTS
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Chapter I.—Gods and other Supernatural Beings
61
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.
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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
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Formation of the Turtle Clan
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How the bear lost his tail
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Origin of medicine
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Origin of wampum
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Origin of tobacco
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Origin of plumage
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Why the chipmunk has the black stripe on his back
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Origin of the constellations
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The Pole Star
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Chapter V.—Tales:
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Boy rescued by a bear
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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
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The hunter and his faithless wife
90
Chapter v.— Tales
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The charmed suit
92
The boy and the com
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
Chapter VI.— Religion
112
New Year's festival
112.
Tapping the maple trees
115
Planting com
115
Strawberry festival
115
Green-corn festival
115
Gathering the com
115
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Plate XII.—Returning thanks to the Great Spirit
52
XIII. — Stone giant or cannibal
56
XIV.— Atotarha, warchief
60
XV.— The Flying Head put to flight
64
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