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2. Animals pity and help poor people. 



Ts 158 

 Ts 172 

 Ts 192 

 Ts 1.73 I 

 Ts 5.2S51 

 Ts 1.201 1 

 Ts 5.2811 



3. Animals abduct or seduce girls. 



Ts 166 = Kai 254 



Ts 177 



Ts 232 



Tl 238( ?) 



4. Girls are married by supernatural beings or animals, and re- 

 ceive gifts; clan stories or stories of similar type. 



Ts272 

 Ts297 

 N 229 



Tl 238 ( ?) 

 Tl 130 



M560 



Kai 260 



It appears from this list that the type of stories of offended animals 

 belongs primarily to the Tlingit, from whom it was probably bor- 

 rowed by the Masset. The helpful animals seem to be characteristic 

 of the Tsimshian series. 



I have not included in this list the numerous Land Otter stories, 

 which are somewhat different in character. All of these refer to the 

 idea that drowned people are taken away by the Land Otters. If 

 the drowned persons are girls, they may be married by them; and 

 if men, they may marry among them. The Land Otter story Ts 166, 

 Kai 254, which is included in our present discussion, is somewhat 

 different in character. A few other stories have not been included 

 in our discussion, although they are somewhat simdar in type to the 

 tales of this group. Here belongs the story of the girls who are 

 scolded by their mother and are told that they are not good enough 

 to many Mountain Dweller. Thereupon they run away and do 

 marry him Tl 222, Tl 280. I have also omitted the story of a girl 

 who marries a man who is apparently very poor, but turns out to be 

 wealthy and the son of a powerful being Tl 132. The Gau'o story, 

 which tells of a mother who calls the various animals to marry her 

 daughter, has been referred to in our discussion, but is in reality of a 

 somewhat different type (see p. 849). 



