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ОглавлениеMETHODS EMPLOYED IN RECORDING FOLK TALES.
TEXT IN SENECA WITH INTERLINEAR TRANSLATION.
STORY-TELLING CUSTOMS OF THE SENECA.
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.
STEREOTYPED OBJECTS AND INCIDENTS.
COMPONENTS OF THE COSMOLOGICAL MYTH.
III. THE ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH THE LEGENDS WERE TOLD
2. THE BROTHERS WHO CLIMBED TO THE SKY.
4. THE GREAT BEAR CONSTELLATION.
5. THE SEVEN BROTHERS OF THE STAR CLUSTER.
V. BOYS WHO DEFIED MAGIC AND OVERCAME IT
10. THE FORBIDDEN ARROW AND THE QUILT OF MEN’S EYES.
11. CORN GRINDER, THE GRANDSON.
13. HATONDAS, THE LISTENER, FINDS A WIFE.
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.
20. THE BOY WHO OVERCAME ALL MAGIC BY LAUGHTER.
VI. TALES OF LOVE AND MARRIAGE
21. TWO FEATHERS AND TURKEY BROTHER.
22. TWO FEATHERS AND WOODCHUCK LEGGINGS.
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.
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.
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.
VIII. TALES OF TALKING ANIMALS
39. THE MAN WHO EXHALED FIRE—HIS DOGS AND THE WOLVES.
41. THE RACE OF THE TURTLE AND THE BEAVER.
42. THE WOLF AND THE RACCOON AND HOW THE BIRDS WERE PAINTED.
46. THE RACCOON AND THE CRABS.
IX. TALES OF GIANTS, PYGMIES AND MONSTER BEARS
52. A TALE OF THE DJOGEON OR PYGMIES.
53. BEYOND-THE-RAPIDS AND THE STONE GIANT.
56. THE BOY AND THE FALSE FACE.
57. HOW A BOY OUTWITTED A NIA’´GWAHE.
58. NIA’´GWAHE THE MAMMOTH BEAR.
59. THE BOY AND THE NIA’´GWAHE.
60. CONTENTS OF A CHARM HOLDER’S BUNDLE.
61. CONTENTS OF A WITCH BUNDLE.
65. WITCH WITH A DOG TRANSFORMATION.
66. WITCH STEALS CHILDREN’S HEARTS.
67. HOTCIWAHO. (HAMMER IN HIS BELT.)
68. HOW AMERICA WAS DISCOVERED.
69. ORIGIN OF THE CHARM HOLDERS’ MEDICINE SOCIETY.
70. ORIGIN OF THE FALSE FACE COMPANY.
71. THE ORIGIN OF THE LONG HOUSE.
72. DEAD TIMBER, A TRADITION OF ALBANY.
B. THE WYANDOT CREATION MYTH (Extract) .
C. AN INTERVIEW WITH “ESQ.” JOHNSON BY MRS. ASHER WRIGHT.
D. EMBLEMATIC TREES IN IROQUOIAN MYTHOLOGY.
