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MYTHS. 



Thunder and ligMning. — The general belief has been that these are 

 caused by a great bird flapping its wings, and some point to trees that 

 have been struck by lightning and say that the bird touched these 

 trees and hence they were torn to pieces. Some say they have seen the 

 bir<l, but others do not believe this. A fable by the Indians says that 

 theUoswailopsh mountain had two wives: Mount Rauier was one, and 

 a mountain near Hood's Canal was the other; Mount Eanier and this 

 mountain quarrelled and Mount Kanier moved away, and now they 

 always fight by thunder and lightning. 



The ftun. — In addition to those traditions given in " Eells on the 

 Twanas," I give the following from the Klallams : 



" A long time ago there was only one woman in the world, but no man. 

 She made a man of gum and set him up and wished him to become alive 

 and to be her husband. She went to sleep and life came to him. Being 

 of guiu, he was very sensitive to the heat of the sun, which was much 

 hotter then than now. He worked when it was cool and rested in the 

 shade when it was hot. He had some children. One day he went fishing 

 and told his wife to look out for him if it became hot; but she went to 

 sleep and did not do so, and the heat grew intense and melted him, and 

 he died. His sons were very angry at the sun for this ; one of them made 

 a bow and very yiany arrows. He shot them up towards the sun and 

 they formed a chain or rope on which the boys ascended, and found a 

 prairie land. They asked the geese, who could then talk, ' Where is the 

 man who killed my father?' and the geese pointed in one direction and 

 said ' Yonder.' The boys went in the direction indicated, and came to 

 a house where two blind women lived, and they sat down. As one 

 woman gave some food to her com])anion one of the boys took it. 

 'Have you received your food?' said the first woman to the other. 

 The latter replied ' No,' and both wondered what had become of it. 

 Soon one of the boys said he had taken it and asked ' Where is the 

 man who killed my father?'. The woman replied, 'Farther on,' and 

 gave them a very small basket, in which were six salmon berries. The 

 boys went on and soon found some swallows which could talk, and 

 again they asked, 'Where is the man who killed my father?' The 

 swallows said ' In yonder house.' The pair went to the house and found 

 an old man piling i)itch wood on a very hot fire, so hot it nearly roasted 

 the boys, and this was what made it hot on the earth. They gave the 

 old man the six salmon berries, which became very manj^ and swelled 

 within him and killed him. The fire then went down somewhat, and it 

 has not been so hot on the earth since." 



FABLES OF THE TWANAS. 



The pheasant and the raven. — The raven had a trap and caught very 

 many fishes, but would not give any to the pheasant. At last the 

 pheasant went to hunt deer. While he was on his way a deer met 



