Seneca myths and folk tales
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From The Buffalo Historical Society Publications, V27.
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- SENECA MYTHS AND FOLK TALES
- FOREWORD
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- METHODS EMPLOYED IN RECORDING FOLK TALES.
- TEXT IN SENECA WITH INTERLINEAR TRANSLATION.
- LITERAL TRANSLATION.
- FREE TRANSLATION.
- OBTAINING CORRECT VERSIONS.
- STORY-TELLING CUSTOMS OF THE SENECA.
- PHONETIC KEY.
- I FUNDAMENTAL FACTORS IN SENECA FOLK-LORE
- BASIC PREMISES OF SENECA FOLK-LORE.
- GODS, MAJOR SPIRITS AND FOLK-BEASTS OF THE SENECA. 1. BEINGS OF THE PRIMAL ORDER.
- 2. NATURE BEINGS.
- 3. MAGIC BEASTS AND BIRDS.
- 4. MAGICAL MAN-LIKE BEINGS.
- II. THEMES AND MATERIALS
- STEREOTYPED OBJECTS AND INCIDENTS.
- INCIDENTS.
- OBJECTS.
- COMPONENTS OF THE COSMOLOGICAL MYTH.
- III. THE ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH THE LEGENDS WERE TOLD
- IV. WHEN THE WORLD WAS NEW
- 1. HOW THE WORLD BEGAN.
- 2. THE BROTHERS WHO CLIMBED TO THE SKY.
- 3. THE DEATH PANTHER.[12]
- 4. THE GREAT BEAR CONSTELLATION.
- 5. THE SEVEN BROTHERS OF THE STAR CLUSTER.[15]
- 6. THE SEVEN STAR DANCERS.[17]
- 7. THE COMING OF SPRING.[19]
- 8. THE COMING OF DEATH.
- V. BOYS WHO DEFIED MAGIC AND OVERCAME IT
- 9. ORIGIN OF FOLK STORIES.
- 10. THE FORBIDDEN ARROW AND THE QUILT OF MEN’S EYES.[20]
- 11. CORN GRINDER, THE GRANDSON.[21]
- 12. HE-GOES-TO-LISTEN.[22]
- 13. HATONDAS, THE LISTENER, FINDS A WIFE.[23]
- 14. THE ORIGIN OF THE CHESTNUT TREE.
- 15. DIVIDED BODY RESCUES A GIRL FROM A WIZARD’S ISLAND.
- 16. THE ORIGIN OF THE BUFFALO SOCIETY.
- 17. THE BOY WHO COULD NOT UNDERSTAND.
- 18. THE BOY WHO LIVED WITH THE BEARS.
- 19. THE SEVENTH SON.[28]
- 20. THE BOY WHO OVERCAME ALL MAGIC BY LAUGHTER.[30]
- VI. TALES OF LOVE AND MARRIAGE
- 21. TWO FEATHERS AND TURKEY BROTHER.
- 22. TWO FEATHERS AND WOODCHUCK LEGGINGS.[33]
- 23. HOW TURKEY BOY SQUEEZED THE HEARTS OF A SORCERER AND HIS SEVEN SISTERS.
- 24. CORN RAINS INTO EMPTY BARRELS.
- 25. TWENTGOWA AND THE MISCHIEF MAKER.[34]
- 26. THE HORNED SERPENT RUNS AWAY WITH A GIRL WHO IS RESCUED BY THE THUNDERER.
- 27. THE GREAT SERPENT AND THE YOUNG WIFE.
- 28. BUSHY HEAD THE BEWITCHED WARRIOR RESCUES TWO LOST DAUGHTERS AND WINS THEM AS WIVES.[36]
- 29. THE FLINT CHIP THROWER.
- VII. HORROR TALES OF CANNIBALS AND SORCERERS
- 30. THE DUEL OF THE DREAM TEST BETWEEN UNCLE AND NEPHEW.
- 31. THE VAMPIRE SIRENS WHO WERE OVERCOME BY THE BOY WHOSE UNCLE POSSESSED A MAGIC FLUTE.
- 32. YOUNGER BROTHER ELUDES HIS SISTER-IN-LAW BY CREATING OBSTACLES AND LIBERATES OLDER BROTHER.
- 33. THE ISLAND OF THE CANNIBAL.
- 34. THE TWELVE BROTHERS AND THE WRAITH OF THE EVIL WARRIOR.
- 35. THE CANNIBAL AND HIS NEPHEW.
- 36. A YOUTH’S DOUBLE ABUSES HIS SISTER.
- 37. MURDERED DOUBLE SPEAKS THROUGH FIRE.
- 38. THE VAMPIRE CORPSE.[39]
- VIII. TALES OF TALKING ANIMALS
- 39. THE MAN WHO EXHALED FIRE—HIS DOGS AND THE WOLVES.[40]
- 40. THE TURTLE’S WAR PARTY.[41]
- 41. THE RACE OF THE TURTLE AND THE BEAVER.
- 42. THE WOLF AND THE RACCOON AND HOW THE BIRDS WERE PAINTED.
- 43. THE CHIPMUNK’S STRIPES.
- 44. THE RABBIT SONG.
- 45. THE RABBIT GAMBLER.
- 46. THE RACCOON AND THE CRABS.
- 47. THE CRAB’S EYES.
- 48. HOW THE SQUIRREL GAVE A BLANKET TO HIS WARRIOR, ROBBED THE WOODCHUCK OF HIS TAIL AND THE FROG OF HIS TEETH.[43]
- 49. THE CHICKADEE’S SONG.[44]
- 50. THE BIRD WOMAN.[45]
- 51. THE PARTRIDGE’S SONG.
- IX. TALES OF GIANTS, PYGMIES AND MONSTER BEARS
- 52. A TALE OF THE DJOGEON OR PYGMIES.
- 53. BEYOND-THE-RAPIDS AND THE STONE GIANT.
- 54. THE ANIMATED FINGER.[49]
- 55. THE STONE GIANT’S BATTLE.[50]
- 56. THE BOY AND THE FALSE FACE.[51]
- 57. HOW A BOY OUTWITTED A NIA’´GWAHE.
- 58. NIA’´GWAHE THE MAMMOTH BEAR.[52]
- 59. THE BOY AND THE NIA’´GWAHE.
- X. TRADITIONS
- SENECA BELIEF IN WITCHCRAFT.
- 60. CONTENTS OF A CHARM HOLDER’S BUNDLE.
- 61. CONTENTS OF A WITCH BUNDLE.[53]
- 62. OVERCOMING A WITCH.[54]
- 63. THE SCORNED WITCH WOMAN.[55]
- 64. CATCHING A WITCH BUNDLE.[56]
- 65. WITCH WITH A DOG TRANSFORMATION.[57]
- 66. WITCH STEALS CHILDREN’S HEARTS.[58]
- 67. HOTCIWAHO. (HAMMER IN HIS BELT.)
- 68. HOW AMERICA WAS DISCOVERED.
- 69. ORIGIN OF THE CHARM HOLDERS’ MEDICINE SOCIETY.[59]
- 70. ORIGIN OF THE FALSE FACE COMPANY.
- THE STONE GIANTS.[60]
- THE GENONSGWA.[61]
- THE FALSE FACE.
- THE FALSE FACE SOCIETY.[62]
- THE MASK-MAKING CEREMONY.
- 71. THE ORIGIN OF THE LONG HOUSE.[63]
- 72. DEAD TIMBER, A TRADITION OF ALBANY.[64]
- XI. APPENDIX
- A. ORIGIN OF THE WORLD.
- B. THE WYANDOT CREATION MYTH (Extract).
- C. AN INTERVIEW WITH “ESQ.” JOHNSON BY MRS. ASHER WRIGHT.[66]
- STONE GIANTS.
- THE THUNDER GOD.
- ANOTHER STORY, OR FABLE, THE THUNDERER.
- D. EMBLEMATIC TREES IN IROQUOIAN MYTHOLOGY.[83]
- E. THE SOCIETY THAT GUARDS THE MYSTIC POTENCE.
- NEH NIGAHNIGAHAH.
- METHOD OF ADMINISTERING THE CHARMED MEDICINE.
- THE MEDICINE LODGE RITUAL.
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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