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and those of the east. Of incidents not falling into the con- 
nected cycle just discussed, there are about eighteen, an investi- 
gation of whose distribution reveals the following points. About 
half of these, including such as the “hoodwinked dancers,” 
“stolen feast,” “rolling rock,” “body punished,” “reflection 
devices,” “tree holds prisoner,” and “sun trap,” are common to 
a group composed of the Cree, Saulteaux, Fox, and Menominee, 
the Ojibwa having but three out of eight. The other half, 
including the “wolf companions,” “Jonah,” “Hippogrif,” 
"caught by the head,” “visit to the culture-hero,” and “bungling 
host,” are common to the group made up of the Saulteaux, 
Ojibwa, Fox, and Menominee. In other words, the Saulteaux- 
Menominee-Fox have a series of about eighteen incidents in 
common, one-half of which are also found among the Cree, 
and the other half among the Ojibwa. 
“With the Eastern group there is almost as slight an agree- 
ment in the class of incidents as in the connected cycle. Four 
incidents only are found to agree — the “hoodwinked dancers,” 
the “rolling rock,” “visit to the culture-hero,” and the “bungling 
host.” The latter, at least, is of such wide distribution that its 
importance in this case may be regarded as slight.” 
The variability in the versions of this Two-Brother myth 
is, after all, inconsiderable. Let us see of what type they are. 
We have first the abnormal birth of the hero, present in some and 
absent in others; then a variability in the number of dramatis 
personae and in the nature of their relation to one another, 
whether friendly or inimical; third, differences in the fate of the 
brother; and fourth, differences in the nature of the hero’s dis- 
guise when seeking revenge. 
The abnormal birth is part of the usual formula for the hero. 
It may, however, disappear if of little importance for his char- 
acterization. In the Fox version used by Dixon we are dealing 
with a ritualistic myth that has undergone marked literary 
remodelling where the author-raconteur seems to have had two 
marked themes, revenge for the death of the hero’s brother, and 
the succour of the human race, and everything has been subor- 
dinated to these themes. The retention of the entire folk-lore 
hero formula was quite unnecessary. Among the Winnebago, 
