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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 |
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