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      2018 OK Publishing

      ISBN 978-80-272-4600-7

Table of Contents

       Chapter I. Gods and Other Supernatural Beings

       Hi-nuⁿ Destroying the Giant Animals

       A Seneca Legend of Hi-Nun and Niagara

       The Thunderers

       Echo God

       Extermination of the Stone Giants

       The North Wind

       Great Head

       Cusick's Story of the Dispersion of the Great Heads

       The Stone Giant's Wife

       The Stone Giant's Challenge

       Hiawatha and the Iroquois Wampum

       Chapter II. Pigmies

       The Warrior Saved by Pigmies

       The Pigmies and the Greedy Hunters

       The Pigmy's Mission

       Chapter III. Practice of Sorcery

       The Origin of Witches and Witch Charms

       Origin of the Seneca Medicine

       A "True" Witch Story

       A Case of Witchcraft

       An Incantation to Bring Rain

       A Cure for All Bodily Injuries

       A Witch in the Shape of a Dog

       A Man Who Assumed the Shape of a Hog

       Witch Transformation

       A Superstition About Flies

       Chapter IV. Mythologic Explanation of Phenomena

       Origin of the Human Race

       Formation of the Turtle Clan

       How the Bear Lost His Tail

       Origin of Medicine

       Origin of Wampum

       Origin of Tobacco

       Origin of Plumage

       Why the Chipmunk has the Black Stripe on His Back

       Origin of the Constellations

       The Pole Star

       Chapter V. Tales

       Boy Rescued by a Bear

       Infant Nursed by Bears

       The Man and His Step-son

       The Boy and His Grandmother

       The Dead Hunter

       A Hunter's Adventures

       The Old Man's Lessons to His Nephew

       The Hunter and His Faithless Wife

       The Charmed Suit

       The Boy and the Corn

       The Lad and the Chestnuts

       The Guilty