nS^^SO]^" ^^^' EASTERN CHEROKEE FOLKTALES — ^KILPATRICK 389 



4— THE COUNCIL FOR APPORTIONMENT 



All kinds of animals and human beings assembled (the animals 

 could talk then). 



The Frog was opposed to men being made alive again after 7 

 days of death sleep: "If all of them live, it will be so crowded that 

 they might step on us and take my [scabs ?]." * 



The Tsuliyv.'dhagv [grubworm= 'which (is) segmented, it'] used 

 to walk with his legs, but when he heard what the Frog said, he was so 

 surprised that he fell backward. 



Then all assembled said, "He will walk so forever" — and so he 

 still does walk. 



The Chipmunk (ghi:yu:ga) decided that women, when menstruat- 

 ing, should be under a taboo for 7 days. 



Then all decided that he would have 10 or more stripes.^ 



5— GHANA. -DI PUNISHES HIS SONS 



A man named Ghana :di lived with his wife and two small boys. 

 Whenever they wanted meat, the father went out with his bow and 

 arrows and always came back with game — a bear, a deer, a turkey, or 

 the like. 



The boys had a tsitsi *° to play with: this was all that they had 

 to play with, and when they finished playing with it, it always flew 

 off and went under a cliff in the distance. 



The boys were very interested in feet, in animals' feet — bears' 

 feet, turkeys' feet, and so forth. So when they went to hunt, they 

 took some feet with them to compare. . . . 



In the open they hid . . . wasps, flies, gnats, yeUow jackets, 

 hornets, mosquitoes, fleas, lice. . . . 



dighalvrgv tsuna : hnigi : se ani:dawe:? u:tsawi nv:tsawi 



rising (pi.), it which tliey left (w.p.k.) wizards, they U:tsawl Nv:tsawi 



du : nados'^^ : i nv:do wudeUigv dunu:gh(i)didi:sv yv:wi 



named, they sun over there going down, it going in that direction, they person 



uyohusv : hi unina : widv : dhan6 : i gvno : nunv : nel6 : i 



she died they carried her with them (w.p.k.) alive, they made her (w.p.k.) 



("Let us do as done in ancient times, when those wizards named U: tsawi and Nv : tsawi left the East 

 and went to the West and carried back with them the dead person whom they restored to life.") 



This Is written down In the Uwe : da : tadh (i) Medicine Book No. 26. 



There is a Huron myth that bears several significant points of resemblance to the story above (cf. Tooker, 

 1964, pp. 143-145). 



• If our reading here Is correct, the reference may be to the warts of the toad. 



• This is an extract, with certain details varying, from the "Origin of Disease and Medicine" myth In 

 Mooney (1900, pp. 250-252). 



" Winter wren {Nannus hiemalis hiemalis). 



