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CONTENTS

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Chapter I.—Gods and other Supernatural Beings	61
Hi-nuⁿ destroying the giant animals	54
A Seneca legend of Hi-nuⁿ and Niagara	54
The Thunderers	55
Echo God	58
Extermination of the Stone Giants	59
The North Wind	59
Great Head	59
Cusick's story of the dispersion of the Great Heads	62
The Stone Giant's wife	62
The Stone Giant's challenge	63
Hiawatha and the Iroquois wampum	64
Chapter II.—Pigmies	65
The warrior saved by pigmies	65
The pigmies and the greedy hunters	66
The pigmy's mission	67
Chapter III.—Practice of sorcery	68
The origin of witches and witch charms	69
Origin of the Seneca medicine	70
A "true" witch story	71
A case of witchcraft.	72
An incantation to bring rain	72
A cure for all bodily injuries	73
A witch in the shape of a dog	73
A man who assumed the shape of a hog	73
Witch transformations	74
A superstition about flies	74
Chapter IV.—Mythologic explanation of phenomena	75
Origin of the human race	76
Formation of the Turtle Clan	77
How the bear lost his tail	77
Origin of medicine	78
Origin of wampum	78
Origin of tobacco	79
Origin of plumage	79
Why the chipmunk has the black stripe on his back	80
Origin of the constellations	80
The Pole Star	81
Chapter V.—Tales:	83
Boy rescued by a bear	84
Infant nursed by bears	84
The man and his step-son.	85
The boy and his grandmother	86
The dead hunter	87
A hunter's adventures	88
The old man's lesson to his nephew	89
The hunter and his faithless wife	90