NOTES 795 



66. The Raccoon. 



67. He who has a great headdress ; i. e.. antlers. 



68. The Cloven-hoofed Ones. 



69. The Buok=tlie Great-Horned-One. 



70. The Large-footed Man, the Bear. 



71. Tlie Bear, 



72. The Angleworm (?). 



73. The Snipe. 



74. The Chipmunk. 



75. The Heron. 



76. Long-snouted One. 



77. Long-L^pper-Ejellds. 



78. The Netmaker=tlie Spider. 



79. This is a proper name. 



80. The nephew of Spider. 



81. In the details of cannibalism in this and the other paragraphs of this 

 story there is no protest against the eating of liunian flesh ; this is probably 

 a reflex of the attitude toward this abominable practice. 



82. The three native terms are the descriptive epithet which was applied to 

 a cruel old wizard who was a cannibal; they signify, " He-puts-them-on-an- 

 island-habitually Potato-Duck or Tuber-Duck." This species of duck was en- 

 slaved by him. 



83. The two native words together signify, " He is a man-eater," hence, a 

 cannibal. 



84. This deliberation in torturing a victim was characteristic also of the 

 burning of war prisoners ; the latter being fed and cared for and rested lest 

 they should die too soon and so deprive the ceremony of its sacrificial character 

 and the company of full satisfaction at seeing an enemy .suffer. 



8.5. This is the hell-diver, as some say, or the mudhen, as others say. 



86. This term means simply " Great Duck." 



87. Canada Wild Goose. 



88. The Great Blue Lizard, a mythical animal, which proliably anise from 

 describing an ordinary lizard in terms of the alligator. 



89. The Humming Bird. 



90. This is another mythical animal, which appears under varioiis forms in 

 different stories. 



91. This is the common name of the meteor, the so-called flredragon ; but as 

 a Man-Being, the meteor endowed with human life and faculties, it is prominent 

 in many stories. 



92. The original meaning of this term is " He is master or controller or ruler 

 of it " ; i. e., any object of conversation. It is now a name of the God of the 

 Christian Church, and so is aiiplied here to the one whom tlie earlier story- 

 tellers would have called ' Te'haro°"hiawa''go°', the Master of Life. 



93. This native term at present is applied to the imported idea, " devil," which 

 was quite foreign to the thinking of the early Seneca. It is also the name of 

 the muckworm. 



94. This native term is an epithet applied to a mythical character well known 

 in story-telling. It signifies "The Trickster," or, more literally, "He who 

 abuses people by craft often." Cf. Note 1.55. 



95. This long epithet signifies, "He is the ruler" or "the chief personage." 



96. The Rattlesnake. 



97. The Large Woo<]pecker. 



98. The Locust, literally, " Corn-ripener." 



99. The Crow. 



