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Myths of the Iroquois. (1883 N 02 / 1880-1881 (pages 47-116))
Author: : Erminnie A. Smith
Genre: Literature
Myths of the Iroquois. (1883 N 02 / 1880-1881 (pages 47-116)) by Erminnie A. Smith
Chapter 1 —Gods and other supernatural beings 51
Hi-nu? destroying the giant animals 54
A Seneca legend of Hi-nu? 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 2 —Pigmies 65
The warrior saved by pigmies 65
The pigmies and the greedy hunters 66
The pigmy's mission 67
Chapter 3 —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