CONTENTS 



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Introduction 43 



Part 1. Material Collected by Jeremiah Curtin 



FICTION 



1. The sister and her six elder brothers 75 



2. The child and his uncle 81 



3. Djogeon and his uncle 84 



4. The woman who married a great serpent 86 



5. The ghost woman and the hunter 90 



6. Hahnowa and his forces on the warpath 92 



7. The old man's grandson and the chief of the deserted village 95 



8. The man who married a buffalo woman 98 



9. A woman and her bear lover 102 



10. The fox and the rabbit 105 



11. The snake with two heads 106 



12. A hunter pursued by Genonsgwa 106 



13. The grandmother and her granddaughter Ill 



14. The woman who became a snake from eating fish Ill 



15. Gaqga makes a journey and kills many people 113 



16. Ohohwa and the two sisters 115 



17. A great snake battle 117 



18. The Ongwe las and his younger brother 118 



19. Haieiidonnis and Yenogeauns 121 



20. The man with a panther-skin robe and his brother with a turkey -skin robe. . 127 



21. Deadoendjadases and the old woman's grandson 135 



22. Hat'honda.s (the Listener) 139 



23. The story of the Ohohwa people 144 



24. The chestnut tree guarded by the seven sisters 147 



25. The otter's heart and the claw fetishes 151 



26. The seven sisters who produce wampum 154 



27. The forsaken infant and Gaha 160 



28. The old man and the boy 162 



29. The story of the girls who went for a husband 166 



30. The creation of man 168 



31. (ianiagwailiegowa 169 



32. The man who became a fish, and a Ganiagwaihe 169 



33. A dead man speaks to his mother through the fire 172 



34. The potent boy 176 



35. The faithless wife and the three old men 180 



36. The Dagwanoenyent and her husband 187 



37. A raccoon story 191 



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