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Its real significance and corrpot translation has been given in the introduction 

 to these stories. 



458. As explained in the introduction, this represents poetic license, i. e., the 

 use of the word for flint or chert for ice. 



459. The foregoing recital details certain cu.stonis pertaining to ambassadors 

 to hostile tribes, which are of marked interest. 



460. The matter of this symbol is full.v carried out in the dedicatory language 

 of the League or Federation of the Iroquois. 



461. The following incident on the island is found in other stories, especially 

 in that of Hayanoweh. 



462. This incident shows that the story-tellers believed that the so-called 

 dead were really not dead, and that these well knew what was transpiring 

 on earth among mankind. 



463. This is the psychological counterpart of the familiar " Fear not " of the 

 Sacred Scriptures. 



464. This is the shivery or servitude imposed by the evil use of orenda (or 

 magic power) liy a hostile person; in its original sense the English "spell- 

 bound " had this signification. 



