CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Chaptek I. — Gods and other supernatural, beings 51 



Hi-uu° ilestroying the giant animals 54 



A Senuca legeuil of Hi-nu° and Niagara 54 



The Thunderers 55 



Echo God 58 



Extermination of the Stone Giants 59 



The North Wind 59 



Great Head 59 



Cusick's story of the disi)crsion of the Great Heads 62 



The Stone Giant's wife 62 



The Stone Giant's challenge 63 



Hiawatha and the Iroquois wampnm 64 



Chapter II. — Pigmies 65 



The warrior saved by pigmies 65 



The pigmies and the greedy hunters 66 



The pigmy's mission 67 



Chapter III.— Practice of sorcery 68 



The origin of witches and witch charms 69 



Origin of the Seneca medicine 70 



A " true" witch atory 71 



A case of witchcraft 72 



An incantation to bring rain 72 



A cure for all bodily injuries 73 



A witch in the shape of a dog 73 



A man who assumed the shape of a hog 73 



Witch transformations 74 



A superstition about flies 74 



Chapter 1 V.— Mtthologic explanation of phenomena 75 



Origin of the human race 76 



Formation of the Turtle Clan 77 



How the bear lost his tail 77 



Origin of medicine 78 



Origin of wampum . . 78 



Origin of tobacco 79 



Origin of plumage 79 



Why the chipmunk has the black stripe on his back 80 



Origin of the constellations 80 



The Pole Star 81 



Chapter V. — Tales 83 



Boy rescued by a bear 83 



Infant nursed by bears 84 



The man and his step-son . 85 



The boy and his grandmother 86 



The dead hunter 87 



A hunter's adventures 88 



The old man's lesson to his nephew 89 



The hunter and his faithless wife 90 



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