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332. The meanings of the names of these ten sons of the Chief who married 

 Hongak, the Wild Goose woman, are, In their order, as follows: (a) Red- 

 headed; {b) Long-headed; (c) Long-billed; (rf) Long-niandibled ; (c) Long- 

 footed; (/) Bow-legged; ((/) Long-clawed; (/i) Large-clawed; (i) Pat-headed; 

 and (j) Flint. With the possible exception of the last, these names are not 

 inappropriate for goslings. 



333. The Dagwanoenyent is the Cyclone or Whirlwind which is here repre- 

 sented as striking the vault of the sky with a crash, as the sky was regarded 

 as a solid body. 



334. This whirlwind of snakes is a weird conception, like some other inci- 

 dents of the story. 



33.5. These two native terms signify, respectively, "At the deep lake" and 

 " There where it has passed through the earth." The last meaning is that the 

 water is so deeji that it protrudes on the other side of the earth. 



336. Blue Jay people. 



337. "At the Mountains." 



338. Partridge. 



339. This is not n Seneca word. 



340. Mosquito. 



341. " Having roots " and " He who plants." 



341a. In the Odyssey Odysseus constructed his dwelling place in a similar 

 way and place. 



342. This is a name of Winter=" He, the Cold." 



342a. This name signifies, "They (fern.) are clouds going about from place 

 to place." 



343. This trail is the dramatizing of the sun's rays in the morning or in the 

 evening passing through broken clouds and casting rays and shadows across 

 the sky. An illusion arising from regarding what is visible as having a solid 

 surface. 



344. One of Okteondon's men had just paid the penalty of disobedience of 

 his leader's order. 



345. This name seems to mean "He has lost his leggings." Hois'lia'toi'i'iii' 

 is the correct form. 



346. This is the name of a large bird whicli soars so high that it has won the 

 name " pertaining to the clouds." 



347. This is evidently reminiscent of an earlier age when human pelts were 

 regarded as trophies of cannibal hunters. 



348. The Seneca terms signify, "Human beings, they, both men and women, 

 eat," i. e., both men and women were cannibals. 



349. This method of bringing dry bones to life again, .so frequent in these 

 stories, is not, of course, peculiar to the Seneca. 



350. Blood and the color red appear to be signs of ill omen in the belief of the 

 early story-tellers. 



351. The metho<l of the dream testing is virtually identiral with that in 

 legend No. 70, even to the words used. 



352. This method of destroying the lodges of vanquished sorcerers is fre- 

 (|uently employed in these tales. 



353. " He whose body is bright " and " Thousand-legged worm." 



.'^54. This word signifies "He who tortures them." According to the following 

 line he belonged to the Toad people. 

 3.5.5. Here there is implied a mythic reference in tlie use of the number 7. 

 3.56. Blue Jay. 

 357. Crow. 



