56 THE PENNSYLVANIA LION OR PANTHER. 



building at New Berlin on All Souls' Night and scam- 

 per about the big room after mice. It is now out of 

 ghostly surroundings in the handsome new museum 

 at Albright College, Myerstown. Lebanon County, 

 having been taken there about 1905. Seneca Indians 

 believed that the spirits of tyrants and unfaithful 

 queens passed into panthers. They were hunted speci- 

 fically for this and other before-mentioned reasons, 

 having as little peace in animal form as in their 

 human incarnations. Early German pionee/rsi said 

 that the panther's hide glowed like "fox-fire at 

 night and green lights burned from the eyes." It was 

 held to be good luck to be followed by a panther. It 

 meant that outside forces were seeking the evil in the 

 person followed, that it would soon be drawn away. 

 Prof. E. Emmons, of Williams College, says in his 

 Report on the Quadrupeds of ^Massachusetts : "The 

 panther will not venture to attack man, yet it will fol- 

 low his tracks a great distance ; if it is near evening 

 it frequently utters a scream which can be heard for 

 miles." Some of the first Scotch-Irish frontiersmen 

 regarded the panther's wailing as foretelling a death 

 in the family. It was the "token" or "Banshee" of 

 tliese sturdy souls. Samuel Stradley, a well-known 

 hunter residing on the Tiadaghton or Pine Creek, in 

 Lycoming County, while watching for deer at a cross- 

 ing in 1870, fell asleep in the forest. When he awoke 

 he found himself covered with leaves. Crawling out 

 he sat perfectly still until he was rewarded by seeing 

 a huge ])anther come up, which he shot. It had cvi- 



