438 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Boll. 196 



seized it in its claws and flew up into the air with it whUe the other 

 bird kept striking pieces off the Ugh{a)dhe:n(a). As these pieces fell 

 to the ground, all of them became standing pillars of rock.^^ 



MISCELLANEOUS LEGENDS 

 1— A CHILD IS EATEN BY WOLVES 



In olden times people did not know much about what was right or 

 wrong. 



A man and his wife, and their baby that could just sit up, went 

 out to hunt. They came to a place in the wilderness where they made 

 their camp, and the man began to hunt. He killed enough deer for 

 both him and his wife to carry back home. They thought that it was 

 not possible to carry aU the meat and the baby also, so they decided 

 to take the meat and to leave the baby. They put the baby upon the 

 top of the bark shelter and gave it some bones to suck. Then they 

 left. 



When it was almost sunset, another man, who was also a hunter, 

 came to that place and saw the baby sitting there. He thought that 

 this baby had been left alone for just a little while, and that its parents 

 were about somewhere. So he went on his way home. 



At home he told his wife of the baby he had seen, sitting as if 

 deserted, in the midst of the wilderness. His wife had no children of 

 her own, and she said, "I think they must have left that child up there 

 on purpose. You had better go back in the morning and bring it 

 home for us to keep." 



When the man went to the place in the morning, there was no baby 

 there, just blood aU about and the footprints of a wolf. A wolf had 

 eaten the baby. 



2.— A CHILD IS EATEN BY A TAME PANTHER 



A man caught a young panther and kept him tied to a post. The 

 animal was very gentle. 



One day the man went off to hunt. He stayed overnight in the 

 mountains, but he could not sleep. All night long he heard something 

 howling in the woods. 



12 Olbrechts' note: "M.[orgaa's] grandmother, who told him the story, saw them when she came back 

 from West." 



One story in Mooney (1900, pp. 315-316) Is approximately the same as the above; another one (Ibid., p. 317) 

 Is rather similar to the above. The motif of intrusion of a human being into the nest of a gigantic bird is 

 recorded in Swanton (1929) from Hitchiti (p. 90), Alabama (p.l54), Koasati (p. 193), and Natchez-Cherokee 

 (pp. 246-247) sources. The latter, as might be expected, is the closest to the Olbrechts version. There is 

 a long Sa:nuwa (the word is usually Dhlani:gw(fl) in the Oklahoma dialects) story in Kllpatrick and Kll- 

 patrick (1964, pp. 71-76). 



