NOTES 809 



358. The superheated flint lod^e to destroy evil-minded wizards iiy some 

 hero is a common device in these stories. 



359. This native term is very broad in its extension, as it includes the Man- 

 Bein,^s of the first cosmic period, the first people, the ancients, as well as man- 

 liind of the last cosmic period of these tales. 



360. This statement tliat blood and jiain were given the body for its pro- 

 tection is singular, to .say the least. 



361. This story re.sembles No. 11, " The Snake with Two Heads," in some 

 of its details. 



362. Raccoon. 



363. Deer. 



364. The Great Heads were the l>agwanoenyent. 



365. The Arrow. 



366. This term signifies " People of the Land of Reeds." It is not at all 

 certain that the name applied to any place In the southland, for the modern 

 Iroquois apply it to certain people coming from Onon'ho'gwa"ge' near Bingham- 

 ton, X. T. 



367. The Roue. 



368. These two words signify "'Cherokee'; there they dwell." That is, it 

 was the country of the Cherokee. 



369. The words " Ne Hononhsot " signify " the lodge tenant," but " Endekha 

 Gaahg\va " signify " the sun." i. e., "Diurnal It-Orb-of-Light." 



370. This is an oflicial title ; it denotes " the chiefess " ; that is, the woman 

 chief, wlio is such b.v election, and not b.v being a wife of a chief. 



371. This conception of a river of land is picturesque, to say the least. 



372. This is a protest against prevalent cannibalism. 



373. Ha'degaun'dage', i. e., "All kinds of trees," and the Dwarf Man. re- 

 spectively. 



374. " She, the Proud One." 



375. This story is identical with one published by Lafitau in his " Moeurs, 

 etc." 



376. Thunder or the Thunder Man-Being. 



377. This is the statement of an early form of anthropic parthenogenesis; its 

 enduring implication is that air (wind) — that is, breath — is the source of life. 

 In later development it becomes an inmiaculate conception. 



378. The Wind Man-Being and Winter Man-Being. 



379. The use of the epithet " cannibal " is justified only by the thought that 

 persons are killed to be eaten ; a natural inference to cannibalistic peoples. 



380. The name is not easily translatable; it was probably partly misun- 

 derstood. 



381. A Fishhawk. 



382. Flint-worker or Flint-maker, i. e.. Arrow-head-maker. 



383. Xet-Maker. 

 .S84. He, the I^unuch. 



385. Corn soup. 



386. The Thunderers=They whose voices go about. 



387. Crow and " The Other Side," sometimes Left-handed. 



388. Cyclone and Meteor. 



389. This is the descriptive epithet applied to a dark or l)Iack cyclonic wind 

 cloud. 



390. A Hawk. 



39L A cloud or fog. 



392. The Great Blue Lizard, a mythic being. 



