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The "divinfr" of the ravon while flying liijjh in air i.< performed Vjy folding one 

 wing dose to the body, when the bird falls to a lower plane, apparently turning a som- 

 ersault in the descent. It seems to l)e dune purely for amusement. 



121. Herbert's sprixg (p. 403): The subject of this old trader's legend must have 

 been one of the head-si^rings of Chattooga river, an upper branch of Savannah, hav- 

 ing its rise in the southern pa.-t of Jackson county, Xorth Carolina, on the ea.stern 

 slope of the ridge from which other streams flow in the opposite direction to join 

 the waters of the Tennessee. It was probably in the vicinity of the present high- 

 lands in IMacon county, where the trail from Chattooga river anil the settlements on 

 Keowee crossed the Blue ridge, thence descending Cullasagee to the towns on Little 

 Tennessee. 



126. Pl.vxt lore (p. 420): For ceremonies, prayeis, and precautions used by the 

 doctors in connection with the gathering and preparation of medicinal roots, barks, 

 and herbs, see the author's Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees, in the Seventh Annual 

 Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1891. 



Violet — The Onondaga name signifies "two heads entangled," referring, we are 

 told, to ''the way so often seen where the heads are interlocked and pulled apart by 

 the stems" (W. M. Beauchamp, in Journal of American Folk-Lore, October, 1888). 



Cedar — For references to the sacred character of the cedar among the plains tribes, 

 see the author's Ghost-dance Religion, in the Fourteenth Annual Report of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology, part 2, 1896. 



Linn and bassioood— The ancient Tuscarora believed that no tree but black gum 

 was immune from lightning, which, they declared, would run romid the tree a 

 great many times seeking in vain to effect an entrance. Lawson, who records the 

 belief, adds: "Now, you must understand that sort of gum will not .split or rive: 

 therefore, I suppose the story might ari.se from thence" (Carolina, pp. ,345-346, ed. 

 1860). The Pawnee claim the same immunity for the cedar, and throw sprigs of it 

 as incense upon the fire during storms to turn aside the lightning stroke (Grinnell, 

 Pawnee Hero Stories, p. 126). 



Ginseng — For more concerning this plant see the author's Sacred Formulas, above 

 mentioned. 



