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Arthur C. Parker. Seneca myths and folk tales
Seneca myths and folk tales
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
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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