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represent a man or woman standing or lying, but a cube or 

 a ball would not answer the purpose so well^ and if put for a 

 man, could bardly be supposed even by the imagination of a 

 cbild, to represent more tban position and movement, or rela- 

 tive size when compared with larger or smaller objects. Much 

 the same test is applied by the uncivilized man in a particular 

 class of myths or legends, which come to be made on this wise. 

 We all have more or less of the power of seeing forms of men 

 and animals in inanimate objects, which sometimes have in fact a 

 considerable likeness of outline to what they suggest, but which, 

 in some instances, have scarcely any other resemblance to the 

 things into which fancy shapes them, than a rough similarity 

 in the proportions of their longer and shorter diameters. Myths 

 which have been applied to such fancied resemblances, or have 

 grown up out of them, may be collected from all parts of the 

 world, and from races high and low in the scale of culture. 



Among the Riccaras, there was once a young Indian who 

 was in love with a girl, but her parents refused their consent to 

 the marriage, so the youth went out into the prairie, lamenting 

 his fate, and the girl wandered out to the same place, and the 

 faithful dog followed his master. There they wandered with 

 nothing to live on but the wild, grapes, and at last they were 

 turned into stone, first their feet, and then gradually the upper 

 part of their bodies, till at last nothing was left unchanged but 

 a bunch of grapes, which the girl holds in her hand to this day. 

 And all this story has grown out of the fancied likeness of three 

 stones to two human figures and a dog. There are many 

 grapes growing near, and the Riccaras venerate these figures, 

 leaving little offerings for them when they pass by.^ 



There was a Maori warrior named Hau, and his wife Wairaka 

 deserted him. So he followed her, going from one river to 

 the next, and at last he came to one, where he looked out slyly 

 from the corner of his eye to see if he could, discover her. He 

 breathed hard when he reached the place where Wairaka was 

 sitting with her paramour. He said to her, •' Wairaka, I am 

 thirsty, fetch me some water." She got up and walked down 

 to the sea with a calabash in each hand. He made her go on 

 ' Lewis and Clarke, Expedition ; Philadelphia, 1814, p. 107. 



