SENECA MYTHS AND FOLK TALES

Foreword ix

Introduction	xvii

I. FUNDAMENTAL FACTORS IN SENECA FOLK LORE 1

 	Basic Premises	3
 	Gods, Major Spirits and Folk-Beasts	5
 	Nature Beings	10
 	Magic Beasts and Birds	16
 	Magical Man-like Beings	18

II. THEMES AND MATERIALS 23

 	Stereotyped Objects and Incidents	27
 	Components of the Cosmological Myth	33

III. THE ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH THE LEGENDS WERE TOLD 37
IV. WHEN THE WORLD WAS NEW 57

 	1.	How the World Began	59
 	2.	The Brothers who Climbed into the Sky	74
 	3.	The Death Panther	78
 	4.	The Great Bear Constellation	81
 	5.	The Seven Brothers of the Star Cluster	83
 	6.	The Seven Star Dancers	86
 	7.	The Coming of Spring	88
 	8.	The Coming of Death	92

V. BOYS WHO DEFIED MAGIC AND OVERCAME IT 95

 	9.	Origin of Folk Stories	97
 	10.	The Forbidden Arrow and the Quilt of Men’s Eyes	101
 	11.	Corn Grinder, the Grandson	108
 	12.	He-Goes-to-Listen	116
 	13.	Hatondas, the Listener, Finds a Wife	122
 	14.	The Origin of the Chestnut Tree	128
 	15.	Divided Body Rescues a Girl	133
 	16.	The Origin of the Buffalo Society	137
 	17.	The Boy who could not Understand	142
 	18.	The Boy who Lived with the Bears	147
 	19.	The Seventh Son	154
 	20.	The Boy who Overcame all Magic by Laughter	159

VI. TALES OF LOVE AND MARRIAGE 171

 	21.	Two Feathers and Turkey Brother	173
 	22.	Two Feathers and Woodchuck Leggings	184
 	23.	Turkey Boy Squeezed the Hearts of Sorcerers	200
 	24.	Corn Rains into Empty Barrels	205
 	25.	Twentgowa and the Mischief Maker	208
 	26.	The Horned Serpent Runs Away with a Girl	218
 	27.	The Great Serpent and the Young Wife	223
 	28.	Bushy Head the Bewitched Warrior	228
 	29.	The Flint Chip Thrower	235

VII. HORROR TALES OF CANNIBALS AND SORCERERS: 239

 	30.	The Duel of the Dream Test	241
 	31.	The Vampire Sirens	253
 	32.	Younger Brother Eludes His Sister-in-Law	262
 	33.	The Island of the Cannibal	269
 	34.	The Twelve Brothers and the Wraith	278
 	35.	The Cannibal and His Nephew	284
 	36.	A Youth’s Double Abuses His Sister	290
 	37.	Murdered Double Speaks Through Fire	293
 	38.	The Vampire Corpse	298
VIII.	TALES OF TALKING ANIMALS:	301
 	39.	The Man who Exhaled Fire	303
 	40.	The Turtle’s War Party	305
 	41.	The Race of the Turtle and the Beaver	309
 	42.	The Wolf and the Raccoon	312
 	43.	The Chipmunk’s Stripes	314
 	44.	The Rabbit Song	315
 	45.	The Rabbit Gambler	317
 	46.	The Raccoon and the Crabs	319
 	47.	The Crab’s Eyes	321
 	48.	How the Squirrel Gave a Blanket, etc.	322
 	49.	The Chickadee’s Song	325
 	50.	The Bird Woman	326
 	51.	The Partridge’s Song	328
IX.	TALES OF GIANTS, PYGMIES AND MONSTER BEARS:	329
 	52.	A Tale of the Djogeon or Pygmies	331
 	53.	Beyond-the-Rapids and the Stone Giant	334
 	54.	The Animated Finger	337
	55.	The Stone Giant’s Battle	340
 	56.	The Boy and the False Face	342
 	57.	How a Boy Outwitted a Nia’´gwahe	344
 	58.	Nia’´gwahe, the Mammoth Bear	349
 	59.	The Boy and the Nia’´gwahe	358

X. TRADITIONS: 363

 	 	Seneca Belief in Witchcraft	365
 	60.	Contents of a Charm Holder’s Bundle	368
 	61.	Contents of a Witch Bundle	369
 	62.	Overcoming a Witch	370
 	63.	The Scorned Witch Woman	372
 	64.	Catching a Witch Bundle	376
 	65.	Witch with a Dog Transformation	378
 	66.	Witch Steals Children’s Hearts	380
 	67.	Hotciwaho (Hammer in His Belt)	382
 	68.	How America was Discovered	383
 	69.	Origin of the Charm Holder’s Medicine Society	386
 	70.	Origin of the False Face Company	394
 	71.	Origin of the Long House	403
 	72.	Dead Timber, a Tradition of Albany	407

XI. APPENDIX: 409

 	A.	Origin of the World	411
 	B.	The Wyandot Creation Myth	417
 	C.	An Interview with “Esq.” Johnson by Mrs. Asher Wright	421
 	D.	Emblematic Trees in Iroquoian Mythology	431
 	E.	The Society that Guards the Mystic Potence	445

ILLUSTRATIONS
PLATES:

 	The Atmosphere in which Legends were Told.—From painting by R. J. Tucker	Front.
 	Edward Cornplanter—Sosondowa	Op. p. 4
 	Delos Big Kittle—Sainowa	〃 〃 58
 	The Seven Dancing Brothers—From painting by R. J. Tucker	〃 〃 82
 	Mrs. John Big Kittle.—Photo by E. C. Winnegar	〃 〃 172
 	Hadui Mask of the False Face Company	〃 〃 240
 	Emily Tallchief.—Photo by E. C. Winnegar	〃 〃 364
       DRAWINGS BY JESSE CORNPLANTER:	 
 	The Thunder Serpent	7
 	The Spirit of Dionhekon	11
 	The Flying Head of the Wind	13
 	The Spirit of the Frost	14
 	The Snow Snake Game	39
 	A Bark Communal House	47
 	The Bear Dance	151
 	The Horned Serpent	Op. p. 218
 	Magic Whistle	255
 	Figure of Dancing Warrior	273
 	Restoration of Red Hand	386
 ILLUSTRATING EMBLEMATIC TREES:	 
 	Pictograph of the Sky-Dome	432
 	A False Face Leader	435
 	Symbolism of Legging Strips	437
 	Sky-Dome Symbols	438
 	Embroidered Borders	441
 	Embroidered Pouch: Seneca Work before 1850	Op. p. 442
 	Forms of the Celestial Tree	443
 	“Big Tree in Middle of the Earth”	444
Arrangement of the Little Water Lodge	451
Bibliography	459

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