together for the second song which is wilder and more savage in
character. The whippoorwill’s call is heard at intervals and again the
call of the crows who tell of a feast to come. The whippoorwill song is
one that is most beautiful but it is played on the flute only at rare
intervals and then it is so short that it excites an almost painful
yearning to hear it again but there is art in this savage opera and its
performers never tire of it because it is wonderful even to them. During
the singing every person in the circle must sing and shake his rattle;
to pause is considered an evil thing. It is no small physical effort to
shake a long necked gourd a hundred and fifty times a minute for sixty
minutes without cessation. This I soon discovered when as a novitiate of
the society I was placed between a medicine woman and man and given an
extra heavy rattle. Every now and then a hand from one or the other side
would stretch forth from the inky blackness and touch my arm to see if I
were faithful and sometimes a moist ear would press against my face to
discover if I were singing and listening a moment to my attempts, would
draw back. The song in parts is pitched very high and it is a marvel
that male voices can reach it. At times the chief singers seem to employ
ventriloquism for they throw their voices about the room in a manner
that is startling to the novice. At the close of the song lights are
turned up and the berry water and calumet are passed again and a longer
period of rest is allowed. There are two other sections of the
song-ritual with rest intervals that bring the close of the song close
to daybreak. The feast makers pass the berry water and pipe again and
then imitating the cries of the crow, the ho-non-di-ont pass the bear or
boar’s head on a platter and members tear off a mouthful each with their
teeth imitating the caw of a crow as they do so. After the head is eaten
each member brings forth his pail and places it before the fireplace for
the feast maker to fill with the alloted portion of o-no‘´-kwa or hulled
corn soup. When the pails are filled one by one the company disperses
into the gray light or dawn and the medicine ceremony is over. At the
close of the last song each one takes his packet of medicine and
secretes it about his person.
The medicine song according to the ritual of the society is necessary to
preserve the virtue of the medicine. It is an appreciation of the
founder of the order and a thanksgiving to the host of living things
that have given their life-power that the medicine might be. The spirits
of these creatures hover about the medicine which they will not desert
as long as the holder remains faithful to the conditions that they saw
fit to impose when it was given to the founder. The psychic influence of
the animals and plants is the important part of the medicine and when
the medicine is opened in the dark they are present in a shadowy form
that is said to sometimes become faintly luminous and visible. Members
are said frequently to see these spirit forms, and sometimes not
individual members only but the entire company simultaneously,—but I am
now trenching on a subject of which I am asked not to speak. There are
marvels and mysteries connected with the ceremonies of the
Honotcinohgah, suffice to say, that white men will never know, nor would
believe if told. The Indian has some sacred mysteries that will die with
him.
Some one has suggested that Indian songs are not stable but vary from
time to time, but this idea is at once dispelled when we see a company
of fifty young men and old chanting the same song without a discord from
night till morning. The song is uniformly the same and probably has
varied but slightly since it originated. It is still intact with none of
its parts missing, although the words are archaic and some not
understood.
The medicine men teach that if a charm packet is not sung for at least
once in a year the spirits will become restless and finally angry and
bring all manner of ill luck upon its possessor. The spirits of the
animals and plants that gave their lives for the medicine will not
tolerate neglect and will relentlessly punish the negligent holder and
many instances are cited to prove that neglect brings misfortune. The
medicine will bring about accidents that will cause sprains, severe
bruises and broken bones and finally death. I know of several persons,
myself, who becoming Christians, have neglected their medicine. Whether
the belief is true or not, some have certainly met with repeated
accidents. In every Seneca settlement the story is the same and
individuals are pointed out who having neglected their medicine have
become injured or maimed for life. Should some member of a family die
leaving his medicine its orenda will compel the person who should take
the dead one’s place to respect its desires. I will relate one instance.
When John Patterson the last holder of the secret died he left his
medicine in the loft of his house. His son, a well educated man of wide
business experience, one of the shrewdest men of the Seneca and a person
seemingly free of superstition, thought that he would allow the medicine
of his father to remain idle. He wished to have nothing to do with the
old fashioned heathenish customs of his father. Indeed he did not take
interest enough in the medicine to look for it. Several medicine
sittings passed by and the man began to suffer strange accidents. One
evening as he sat with his family on the veranda of his home (a modern
dwelling such as is found in any modern town), the members say that he
heard the medicine song floating in the air above him. He was startled
and each of the family was frightened. The singing continued until at
length it grew faint and ceased. Upon several occasions the family and
visitors heard the song issuing from the air. Mr. Patterson sent for the
leader of the lower medicine lodge, William Nephew, who asked where the
medicine was hidden. No one knew but after a search it was discovered.
Mr. Nephew ordered that a feast should be made and the rites performed.
Then was the modern educated Indian forced to join the lodge and take
his father’s seat. This story, of which I have given but the bare
outline, is commonly known among the Senecas, Mr. M. R. Harrington, of
the American Indian Museum, being perfectly familiar with the facts of
the case which he took pains to learn while staying at the Patterson
home. Howsoever this may be explained it is nevertheless considered one
of the mysteries of the medicine and the instance is not a solitary one.
Few white people have ever been allowed in a medicine lodge and when
they have been they have not seen to witness the ceremony in full. I
know of only four who ever become members, holding the medicine: Joseph
Keppler, the publisher, and Mrs. Harriet Maxwell Converse, George K.
Staples, and George L. Tucker, with all of whom I have sat in the
medicine lodge.
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Folk-Lore, Vol. 27, 97–100.
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INDEX
NOTE: Themes, characters, episodes and common material are indexed in
italics. Other subjects are in the usual Roman.
_Adoption by animals_, 137.
_Air canoe_, 97, 100, 318.
_Air jumping_, 28.
Albany, traditions of, 406, 407.
America, discovery of, 383.
_Ancient One_, 5, 59, 60.
Ancient relics, 54.
_Animal foster-parents_, 25, 137, 148.
_Animal paw target_, 28, 160.
_Animal skin, borrowing of_, 30, 132, 201.
Animals, origin of, 67;
evil, 68, 414.
_Animals talk to men_, 29, 137, 147, 224, 389.
_Animated finger_, 31, 337.
Arrow making, 98.
Ashes, washing in, 197.
_Astral body_, 29.
_Ataentsic_ (see Ancient One), 6, 59, 60.
Autumnal colors, origin of, 82.
_Awaiting women_, 118, 135.
Barbeau, C. M., cited, 86 f.n., 459;
myth by, 417.
_Bark dagger_, 31, 191.
_Bark dolls_, 31
(see also dolls).
Bark lodge, 43, interior, 44;
picture, 47.
_Basket from sky_, 86.
_Beads, magical_, 155.
Bear, 387.
_Bear claw mittens_, 126.
_Bear, monster_, 17
(see also Niahgwahe).
_Bears talk_, 148, 149 ff.
_Bearded monster_, 228.
Beauchamp, William M., 459.
_Beaver_, 309;
evil beaver, 162, 189.
_Beaver, white_, 17.
Beds, 52.
_Bewitched_, 370
(see also witchcraft, witches, wizards).
_Bewitched parents_, 26.
Bibliography, 459.
_Big Breast_, 19.
_Bird colors, origin of_, 313.
Blow gun, 18, 355.
_Blue lizard_, 17, 163
(see lizard, blue).
_Blue otter_, 17.
Bluesky, William, 107, f.n.
_Boaster makes good_, 24, 350, 355, 361.
Boas, F., 459.
_Boiling oil_, 29, 267, 275, 291, 297, 348.
Bone awl, 98.
_Borrowed eyes_, 31, 105.
_Borrowed skin_, 31, 237.
_Boy hero_, 97, 111, 116, 122, 128, 137, 142, 147, 154, 159, 173, 200,
241, 253, 269, 280, 342, 359, 426.
_Box contains girls_, 28, 234, 250.
_Brother and sister_, 293, 344.
_Brothers_, 261, 278;
as tormentor, 205, 206.
_Buffalo, chief_, 138;
stampedes herd, 138.
Buffalo, early, 37.
Buffalo Historical Society, cited, 42 f.n.
_Buffalo one rib_, 33, 139.
Buffalo songs, 141.
_Bungling boy_, 142.
_Bungling guest_, 26, 209 ff.
Bundles, of magical objects, 163, 222, 368, 369, 372, 376.
Burmaster, Everett R., notes by, 369.
_Burning corpse_, 282, 300.
Camouflage, 356.
_Cannibal_, 133, 156, 203, 269, 271, 284, 335, 345.
Canoe, 134, 256, 269, 305, 342, 427.
Capture, 356.
Cattaraugus reservation, ix.
_Cave of giant_, 397–398.
Cedar waxwings, 331.
_Celestial tree_, 6, 12, 33, 59, 60, 411, 417, 433.
Charm holders’ society, 393.
Charms, witch, 366, 376.
_Cheek tying_, 118, 119, 124.
Cherokee, 358, 422.
_Chestnuts, origin of_, 132.
Chewink, 326.
Chickadee, 325.
Clay pots, 54.
Cleansing, 391.
_Cloudland eagle_, described, 16, 387.
Child killer, 282.
_Chipmunk’s stripes_, 314.
Clothing of Seneca, 41, 48.
Clouds, scouts of Thunderer, 226.
Coffin, 298.
Colden, C., quoted, 431.
Columbus, C., 384.
Comet, origin of, 80, f.n.
_Concealed hearts_, 28, 202, 274.
_Conception by entrance_, 105.
_Conflict between Good and Evil_, 69–70.
_Contest with sorcerers_, 23, 168, 245–252, 265, 351.
Converse, H. M., 446, 456.
_Corn maiden_, 206.
Cornplanter, Edward, picture, plate 2;
cited, 85, f.n., 107, f.n., 146, f.n., 153, f.n., 199, f.n., 305,
f.n., 383, 386, f.n.
_Corn rains_, 28, 205.
_Cornstalk, magic_, 392.
Corn storage, 53.
_Cosmic trees_, 10, 415, 431.
_Cosmogony_, 59, 411.
Costumes of characters, described, 155, 174–175, 184, 218, 278.
Council, 182, 281, 422, 429.
Crabs (crawfish), 319, 321.
_Creation of man_, 69–70, 71, 416, 434.
_Creator_, 86.
Cripples, origin of, 107, 158, 204,
(see skeletons restored).
_Crow_, 325, 388.
_Dancing maidens_, celestial, 86;
conjured, 215.
_Daughters, lost_, 228;
beautiful, 154.
_Death, origin of_, 93.
Deer, 202.
_Dekanawida_, 403.
Descent, 423.
_Dew eagle_, 387,
(see cloudland eagle).
_Divided Body_, 133.
_Divided lodge_, 200, 235, 284.
(See forbidden chamber.)
Doctor, Laura M., 372, f.n.
_Dog_, guard, 133, 136;
turns to stone, 136;
guardian, 202;
carries refugee, 295;
saves master, 303;
witch’s transformation, 378.
_Dolls, magic_, 130, 272, 273, 345;
witch, 374, 423.
_Door-flap action_, 30, 259.
_Door-post tying_, 121, 261.
_Double deceives sister_, 25, 290.
_Dream animals_, rescues hero, 24;
in form of deer, 166;
spider, snake, 173;
appears, 179.
_Dream demand_, 27, 187, 245, 259.
_Dream fast_, 241.
_Dream god_ (Aikon), 10.
_Dream helpers_, 29, 173.
_Dreams_, 4, 423.
Drum, 138, 201.
_Dry hand_, 19, 368.
_Dual existence_, 168.
_Ducks, leg tying_, 214.
_Duel_, 168, 231;
_of dream tests_, 245, 259;
rejected, 335.
_Dwarf, a monster_, 228.
_Earth diver_, 33, 62, 412, 419.
_Earth-god_, 8.
_Earth Holder_, 5.
_Education of young_, 142.
_Elk, magic_, 188;
_carries hero away_, 236.
_Enchanted clearing_, 31, 165.
_Enchanted family_, 109, 159, 169, 173, 200, 242, 268, 297, 348.
_Enchanted girls_, 31, 169, 275.
_Enchanted lodge_, 109, 165.
_Enchanted spring_, 31.
_Entrapped_, 178, 267, 270, 287, 348.
_Evil banished_, 34, 71.
_Evil Mind_ (Tawiskaro), 9, 64, 69, 71.
_Eye plaster_, 312, 321.
_False Faces_, 8, 342, 347, 399;
society of, 400–401, 435.
_Famine_, 185, 205, 337.
Fat, origin of, 67.
_Father search_, 34, 65, 413, 414.
_Filthy hero_, 97, 123, 426.
_Fire beast_, 6, 61, 79.
_Fire drill_, 271.
_Fire-place burial_, 28, 293.
_Fish line, magical_, 30, 125, 263.
Five Nations, 358, 395;
confederation, 405, 436.
_Flayed skin_, 32, 130, 201.
_Flesh-eating water_, 33.
_Flint chips_, throwing, 28, 236.
_Flint lodge_, 28, 261.
_Flute, magic_, 66, 253.
_Flying heads_, 13, 40.
Folk-lore, xv;
types of texts, xix;
fabricated, xxi;
obtaining versions, xxii;
Seneca unchanged, 55.
_Food plants, origin of_, 64.
_Food wasting taboo_, 206.
_Forbidden chamber_, 29, 201,
(see divided lodge).
_Forbidden direction_, 108, 154, 201, 254, 269, 321.
_Four, magical number_, 162 ff., 170 f.n.
_Friend of animals_, 386.
_Frog, evil_, 162, 322.
_Frost god_, 14;
overcome, 91.
_Funeral, pyre_, 282;
customs, 425.
Games, 38–40.
George, David, an informant, 153.
_Ghostly legs_, 18.
_Ghosts_, 4, 279.
_Giant_, 285, 336.
_Giantess, human_, 112.
Gifts, 233.
_Glutton destroyer_, 19.
Gods and folk-beasts, 5, 16.
_Good Mind_, 7, 8, 12, 64, 73, 92, 395.
_Grandfather and grandson_, 142, 159.
_Grandmother and grandson_, 200.
_Grasshopper’s leg_, 340.
_Great Bear constellation_, 81.
_Great Ruler_, 340, 395.
_Great Spirit_, 75.
_Grinding bodies_, 232.
_Hail_, 15.
Haiowentha (Haiwatha), 404.
_Hair tied to earth_, 30, 255, 259.
Handsome Lake, 45, 366, 383.
_Harpy_, 267.
Harrington, Mark Raymond, ix, 456.
_Hawenio_, 8.
_Head hitting_, 244, 259.
_Head Opener_, 10.
_Hearts detached_, 28, 202, 274.
_Heart pinching_, 319.
_Heart squeezing_, 28, 203.
_Hero enchanted_, 179, 192.
_Hero pulls out arrow_, 27, 195.
Hewitt, J. N. B., xx, 6, 442.
Hickory nut oil, 295.
_Hidden lodge child_, 24, 167, 249.
Hill, Hon. Henry W., xi.
_Hoarded water_, 23, 34.
_Holder of Heavens_, 395.
_Hole in the ground_, 147, 159, 256, 266.
_Hollow log regeneration_, 29, 100, 120, 124, 237.
_Hollow tree_, 176, 177, 215.
_Horned serpent_, 16, 218;
picture facing 218;
scales of, 222;
rescues woman, 225.
_Hornet warriors_, 155 ff.
_House of women_, 102, 156, 250.
_Hunter_, 182, 186, 254, 262, 350, 386.
_Hunters, classes of_, 152.
_Hunting practice_, 241.
_Hydra_, 230.
Idioms, 142.
Idol, 423.
_Immaculate conception_, 34, 63.
_Imposter_, 180;
_fails_, 24, 182, 192.
_Immediate maturity_, 63, 64,
(see _precocious twins_).
_Inexhaustible kettle_, 30, 129.
_Ioueskha_, 7, 8.
Informants, ix, x, 199.
_Invisible friend_, 114.
_Iroquois_, 386, 387, 401.
_Island, lonely_, 223, 256, 270.
Jack Berry’s town, 42, 45.
_Jealous father_, 228.
_Jealous sister_, 99.
_Jealous sister-in-law_, 26, 223.
Jemmy, Tommy, 365.
Jimerson, George D. (Tahadondeh), 122, f.n., 337 f.n., 342, f.n., 380,
f.n., 396, f.n.
Johnson, Esquire, relation by, 411, 421.
Kennedy, Fred, ix, 370.
Keppler, Joseph, 456.
_Kicking over tree_, 29, 204, 276.
Kittle, Delos Big, ix, 403, 407, f.n.
Ladders, 51.
Lacrosse playing, 104.
_Laughter overcomes magic_, 162, ff.
_Lazy man_, 208.
_Legends, origin of_, 97.
_Leg sharpening_, 31, 213.
Leland, Charles G., 459.
_Levitation_, 83, 199, f.n., 256.
_Lice hunting_, 30, 255.
Listener, (see Hatondas), 116, 122, 154.
_Lizard, blue_, 17, 163.
_Lodge entraps unwary_, 156.
_Lonely bird_, 29, 325, 326.
_Lonely lodge_, 184, 200, 241, 253, 262, 284, 290, 298, 344, 349.
Long House, 421.
_Lost children_, 228.
_Love glance_, 185.
_Love powder_, 373.
_Lover wins mate_, 26.
Lowie, Robert L., 459.
_Lustration_, 391.
_Magic arrow_, 29, 100, 185, 191, 195, 263, 345.
_Magic canoe_, 30, 97, 100.
_Magic birds_, 31, 186.
_Magic cap_, 175, 184, 352.
_Magic feathers_, 31, 352.
_Magic hair_, 336.
_Magic moccasins_, (see running moccasins), 176.
_Magic nut_, 129.
_Magic path_, 135, 155, 162.
_Magic pipe_, 175, 186.
_Magic pouch_, 30, 116, 119, 128, 175, 181.
_Magical power_, 3,
(see also Orenda).
_Magic remedy_, 114, 257.
_Magic root_, 175.
_Magic spring_, 31, 133, 162, 177.
_Magic suit_, 30, 167, 174, 178, 181, 220.
_Maiden comes for husband_, 205, 284.
_Maiden restored_, 169.
_Man making_, 34, 69, 71, 416.
_Marksman_, 161, 241, 253.
_Marriage bread_, 60, 123, 181, 205.
_Marry me_, 205, 284.
Mask, making of, 401.
_Master of Life_, 75, 76.
_Mats, floor_, 165.
_Medicine_, 175, 181, 388, 445, 447, ff.
Methods of recording, xvii.
Miller, Aurelia Jones, 153, f.n., 158, f.n., 340, f.n., 394, f.n.
Miller, Guy, 108, f.n.
_Mischief Maker_, 18, 208, 278.
Mole, skin borrowed, 132, f.n., 201.
_Moly_ (a magical plant), 258.
_Monster marries girl_, 26.
_Monster race_, 24, 140, 351.
_Monsters_, 5, 130, 177.
_Moon_, 12, 416.
Mooney, James, 459.
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 441.
_Morning Star_, 12.
_Mother-in-law_, 235.
_Mound_, 139, 206, 230, 242, 274.
Mourning, 424.
_Mutilating nephew_, 117, 242.
_Nail parings_, 332.
_Name-genius_, 170, f.n., 300.
_Name guessing_, 241.
_Nature conscious_, 4.
_Nephew_, (see uncle).
Neutral, 45.
New Year’s ceremonial, 424.
_Niahgwahe_, 126, 295, 344, 345, 351, 358.
_North wind_, 88.
_Obstacles intervene_, 129.
_Obstacles produced_, 26, 264, 266, 296.
_Oil, pool of_, 67.
_Ongwe Ias_, (see cannibal).
_Ordeals_, 241, 252.
_Orenda_ (magical power), 3, 10, 159, 184, 241, 445.
_Otter, blue_, 17.
_Overcoming monsters_, 23, 162 ff.
_Owls_, evil, 164; 177;
good, 387.
_Owls from witches’ heads_, 28, 157, 164, 177, 283.
_Pacifying monsters_, 28.
_Paddle, magical_, 256.
Paint, ceremonial, 167.
_Painting face_, 278–279.
_Panther, evil_, 165.
_Partridge_, 328.
_Patting gives power_, 204, 252, 255, 263.
Peabody Museum of American Ethnology and Archaeology, ix.
_Peace Tree_, 431, 436, 442.
_Pestle and mortar_, 112.
Pigeons, 424.
_Pigeon feathers_, 265, 297, 347.
_Pine tree, origin_, 85.
Pipe, 175, 186.
_Pleiades_, origin, 86.
Poison cups, 231.
_Porcupine monster_, 428.
Pouch, 99, 165, 175, 332.
_Powered finger_, 31.
_Power, magically acquired_, 23, 263.
_Power testing_, 71, 241–252.
Precipice, 266.
_Precocious twins_, 23, 101, 104, 126, 135, 268.
_Predestined mates_, 16, 122, 168.
_Primal beings_, 34, 412.
_Propitiation_, 424.
_Provoker_, 229.
_Puberty ceremony_, 173.
Purging, 391.
_Pursued by enemies_, 113, 125, 190, 280, 295, 299.
_Pursuer delayed_, 113, 130, 264, 296, 299, 345.
_Pygmies_, (Djogeon), 18, 32, 332.
Quapaw, 422.
_Quilt of eyes_, 31, 102, 106.
_Rabbit, runs in circle_, 316;
_a gambler_, 317.
_Raccoon and Crabs_, 319.
_Raccoon outwits Wolf_, 312.
_Race with monster_, 140, 351.
Radin, Paul, 459.
Red Jacket, 365.
_Reducible dog_, 32, 124, 294.
_Reducible sister_, 28, 234, 249, 345.
_Reduction by magic_, 255, 263.
_Refugees_, 285.
_Refuge in hollow log_, 281.
_Regeneration_, 31, 75, 87, 429.
Reichard, Gladys, 459.
_Rescued girls_, 232–233, 249.
_Restoration from enchantment_, 107, 115, 169, 201, 251–252, 258, 261,
276–277, 288, 348.
_Retaliation_, 242–243, 259, 261.
Ritual, 449 ff.
_Rival twins_, 34, 69, 70.
_Root, magic_, 175, 258.
_Running moccasins_, 29, 176, 264, 345.
_Saliva gives power_, 30, 81, 114;
heals, 213, 257, 334–335, 338.
_Salt, used as charm_, 236.
_Scalding fluid missile_, 109, 113.
_Scalping_, 280, 342, 357, 387.
_Scolding wife_, 208 ff.
_Search for relatives_, 135, 159, 201.
_Seeds from heaven_, 61.
Seneca folk-tales, basic beliefs, 3;
legendary origin, 97.
Seneca Indians, story-telling customs, xxiii;
basic beliefs, 3,
condition of, 45–46,
story-telling customs, 50;
beliefs, 365.
_Serpent progeny_, 222.
_Seven-headed monster_, 230, 232.
Severance, Frank H., dedication to, v;
mentioned, xi.
_Sharp bone_ (witch weapon), 370, 377.
_Shell wampum_, 404.
_Shooting practice_, 160.
_Singing women_, 102.
_Sinking basket_, 230.
_Sister, enchanted_, 249, 275.
_Sisters are witches_, 131, 259.
Six Nations, 340.
_Skeletons restored_, 27, 29, 107, 158, 204, 252, 258, 276.
Skinner, Alanson, 24, 459.
_Skin man_ (see flayed skin).
_Skull, talking_, 32, 242, 270.
_Skunniwundi_, 334, 337.
_Sky basket_, 86.
_Sky Holder_, 8.
_Sky Journey_, 27, 74, 87.
_Sky woman_, 9, 33, 60, 63.
_Sky World_, 33, 59, 74, 411.
_Slippery hillside_, 156, 267, 287.
_Smeared hair_, 156.
_Snake grows fast_, 33.
_Snowshoes_, 199.
Snowsnake game, 38;
drawing of, 39.
Society, 400, 445.
Sogogo (Bushy Head), 228.
_Song of magic_, 130, 186, 236, 245, 247, 254, 271, 390, 455.
_Son-in-law put to tests_, 23.
_Son testing_, 34, 65, 414.
_Sorcerer’s line_, 263.
_Sorcerer’s island_, 26, 270.
_Soul path_, 69.
_Souls of creatures_, 4.
_Soup spoiling_, 110, 229–230.
_South Wind_, 90.
_Speaking first_, 75, 229.
_Speaking trees_, 399.
Speck, Frank G., 449, f.n., 442, f.n.
_Spider_, 173, 346.
_Spring god_, 15, 89, 90.
_Spirit in tree_, 341.
_Squirrel_, 322.
Staples, George Kelley, xi, 456.
_Stars, origin of_, 69.
State Museum of New York, x, 440.
_Step-father_, 25, 147.
_Stolen eyes_, 31, 102.
_Stone coats_, 335, 337;
country of, 394.
_Stone giants_, 18, 334, 337, 340;
battle of, 341, 394, 395, 425.
_Stone throwers_, 331.
_Storage platforms_, 44.
Story teller, xxv, 49–50.
Story-telling customs, xxiii, 50.
_Stream crossing_, 334, 338.
_Stored property_, 200, 220, 303.
_Storm wind_, 13, 15, 32.
Story bag, 50, 99.
_Strawberry_ patch (magic), 201.
_Sudden friend_, 33, 134, 208, 257, 342.
_Sun god_, 10, 76.
_Sustenance, spirits of_, 15.
_Sweat lodge_, 31, 106, 173, 196, 221, 233, 276.
_Sweeping_, 230, 231.
_Swift Runner_, 350.
_Sympathetic magic_, 374, 375.
_Taboo violated_, 28, 109, 254, 269.
_Talking flute_, 29.
_Talking moccasins_, 31.
_Talking skull_, 32, 242, 270.
_Tawiskaro_ (Evil Mind), 9;
names of, 10.
_Tempter_, 176, 177, 269, 294, 344.
Text, interlinear, xix.
_Thaw_, 15.
_Thrown away boy_, 24.
Thunder spirit, picture of, 7, 8, 218;
wars on horned serpent, 222, 225;
wars with giants, 341, 426;
house of, 428.
_Thunder wars upon horned serpent_, 26, 219, 225–227, 428.
_Tide spirit_, 16.
_Toad rescues hero_, 266.
_Tobacco incense_, 73,
demanded, 98, 186, 226, 242, 271, 332, 347;
offered, 386, 401, 424, 448.
Toboggan, 250.
Tonawanda, 366, 370.
Totem, 208.
Totemic carving, 42.
Trail lodge, 278.
_Tripping on door-sill_, 243.
_Transformation_, 3, 23, 105, 244, 266, 295, 347, 352, 366, 378.
Tucker, George L., xi, 456.
_Turkey_ (a character), 173, 200.
_Turtle outwits beaver_, 309.
_Turtle, primal_, 33, 62, 414, 418.
_Turtle shell rattles_, 435.
_Turtle’s war party_, 26, 305.
_Tusks_, 356, 361.
_Twins_, 63, 101, 126, 135, 268, 349, 412.
_Two Feathers_, 184.
_Uncle and nephew_, 25, 173, 184, 241, 253, 284.
_Underbed sanctuary_, 28, 174, 202, 248, 249.
_Underground lodge_, 169, 178.
_Underground playing_, 27, 104.
_Underwater cave_, 221.
_Unseen spirits_, 3.
_Unstoppable song_, 216.
_Unwelcome guest_, 235.
_Usurper_ (see imposter), 228.
_Vampire corpse_, 27, 278, 298, 381.
_Vulnerable spot_, 127, 139, 348, 355, 361.
Walker, B. N. O., cited, 420, f.n.
_Walking into ground_, 29, 104.
Walum Olam, 438.
_Wampum_, 116, 131, 202, 404, 424.
Wampum belt, 358.
_Wampum deer_, 188.
_Wampum eagle_, 32, 194, 198.
_Wampum spitting_, 175, 181, 187.
_Wampum tears_, 30, 114.
_War club, magical_, 167.
_War god_, 12.
_War party_, 278, 342, 355.
Washington, George, 45.
Waterman, T. T., 459.
_Water swallowing_, 28, 125.
Wenroe, 45.
_Whirlwind_, 6.
_White beaver_, 17.
_White otter_, magical, 266.
_White pebble_, 32, 125, 189, 265.
_Wife hunt_, 174.
_Wife rescues husband_, 237.
_Will-o’-wisp_, 16.
_Window peeker_, 378.
_Winged light_, 392.
_Witch doctor_, 366, 373, 381.
_Witches_, 131, 157, 158, 259, 344, 365;
overcoming, 370;
killed, 370, 372;
transformation, 378, 380.
_Witch mother-in-law_, 189, 198, 259, 294.
_Wizardry_, 159, 201, 246, 365.
_Wizards_, 5, 168, 183, 201, 245, 253, 259, 260, 282, 300, 365.
_Wolf_, 305, 312, 325, 387.
Woodchuck, 322.
_Woodchuck Leggings_, 184.
_World-Tree_, 33, 416, 431, 434.
Wright, Laura M., records interview, 421.
Wyandots, 417;
myth of creation, 417.