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wouiiilfil Kahhit i^^ juil uiidfr tlic can' nt tlir llnzzanl, wlici winds uji liy cjitiiitr liis 

 patient. 



In the Passanui<niiicl.ly vcn«ii)n, "The Rabl)it'K Adventuii- with Mouin, llie ]5ear," 

 the Bear cuts a sHee from his foot and puty it into tlie pot. Tlie Rabhit invites the 

 Bear to dinner and attempts to do the .same thing, hut eomes to grief.' In a Jica- 

 rilla mytli a somewliat similar incident i.s related of tin' Kcix (Coyote?) and the 

 Prairie-dog (Russell, Myths of the Jicarilla, in Journal of .\nieriean Folk-Lore, 

 October, 1898). In a British Columbian myth nearly the same thing liai)i)ens when 

 the Coyote undertakes to return the hospitality of the Black Bear (Ti'it, Thompson 

 River Inilian Traditions, p. 40). 



24. TiiK R.vbhit kscai-es fro.m thk wolves (p. 274): This story was oljtained from 

 James AVaffonl, in Indian Territory. Compare number IS), "How the >\'ildcat 

 Caught the Gobbler." 



23. Fli.nt visits the R.msbit (p. 274) : This story was told in slightly different form 

 by John Ax and Swimmer (ea.st) and was confirmed by Wafford (west). Although 

 among the Cheroki'e it has degenerated to a mere humorous tale for the amusement 

 of a winter evening, it was originally a princijial jiart of the great cosmogonic myth 

 common to probably all the Iroquoian and Algonquian tribes, and of which we find 

 traces also in the mythologies of the Aztec and the Maya. Among the northern 

 Algonquian tribes "the West was typified as a flint stone, and the twin brother of 

 Michabo, the Great Rabljit. The feud between them was bitter, and the contest 

 long and dreadful. . . . At last Michabo mastered his fellow twin and broke him 

 into pieces. He scattered the fragments over the earth. . . ." Among the Iro- 

 quoian tribes, cognate witli the Cherokee, the name is variously TCiwiskaroil, Tawlskard, 

 and sometimes OIuki, all of which are names both for flint and for hail or ice. T;'lwis- 

 kara is the evil-working god, in perpetual conflict with his twin brother Yoskeha, 

 the beneficent god, by whom he is finally overpowered, when the blood that drops 

 from his wounds is changed into flint stones. Brinton sees in the Great Rabljit and 

 the Flint the opposing forces of day and night, light and darkness, locally personi- 

 fied as East and West, while in the twin gods of the Iroquois Hewitt sees the con- 

 flicting agents of heat and cold, summer and winter. Both conceiitions are identical 

 in the final analysis. Hewitt derives the Iroquois name from a root denoting "hail, 

 ice, glass"; in Cherokee we have MH'/sA'o/iaT'?, tdivi'slMd, "flint," laui'shl, "smooth," 

 une'Mli'ifi, "ice." (See Brinton, American Hero Myths, pp. 48, 5ti, 61 ; Hewitt, The 

 Cosmogonic Gods of the Iroquois, in Proc. Am. Ass. Adv. Sci., xLiv, 1895.) 



In one of the Cherokee sacred formulas collected by the author occurs the expres- 

 sion; "The terrible Flint is coming. He has his paths laid down in this direction. 

 He is shaking the red switches threateningly. Let us run toward the Sun land." 



Siyu' — This word, abbreviated from dsiyu', "good," is the regular Cherokei; salu- 

 tation. With probal)ly all the tribes the common salutation is simply tlie word 

 "good," and in the sign language of the plains the gesture conveying that meaning 

 is used in the same way. The ordinary good-bye is usually some e(iuivalent of 

 "I go now." 



26. How THK DiSEK GOT HIS HORNS (p. 275): This story was lieard from Swimmer, 

 Snyeta, and others, and is well known in the tribe. 



In a parallel Pawnee myth, "How the Deer Lost llis Gall," tlie Deer and Ante- 

 lope wager their galls in a race, whidi the Antelope wins, but in sympathy takes off 

 his own dewclaws an<l gives them to the Deer. In the Blackfoot variant the Deer 

 and the Antelope run two races. The first, which is over the prairie, the Antelope 

 wins and takes the Deer's gall, while in the second, which the Deer stipulates shall 

 be run through the timber, the Deer wins and takes the Antelope's dewclaws 

 (Grinnell, Pawnee Hero Tales, pp. 204, 205). 



•C. G. LflHiiii. .^IgiiiKiniii Logeiids (if NfH- Kni-Ianci. p. -Jl'J: HusKm, 18tvl. 



