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# Myths and Legends of Our Own Land/Volume 1/Preface

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Preface
IT is unthinkingly said and often, that America is not old enough to have developed a legendary era, for such an era grows backward as a nation grows forward. No little of the charm of European travel is ascribed to the glamour that history and fable have flung around old churches, castles, and the favored haunts of tourists, and the Rhine and Hudson are frequently compared, to the prejudice of the latter, not because its scenery lacks in loveliness or grandeur, but that its beauty has not been humanized by love of chivalry or faerie, as that of the older stream has been. Yet the record of our country's progress is of deep import, and as time goes on the figures seen against the morning twilight of our history will rise to more commanding stature, and the mists of legend will invest them with a softness or glory that shall make reverence for them spontaneous and deep. Washington hurling the stone across the Potomac may live as the Siegfried of some Western saga, and Franklin invoking the lightnings may be the Loki of our mythology. The bibliography of American legends is slight, and these tales have been gathered from sources the most diverse records, histories, newspapers, magazines, oral narrative—in every case reconstructed. The pursuit of them has been so long that a claim may be set forth for some measure of completeness.
​But, whatever the episodes of our four historic centuries may furnish to the poet, painter, dramatist, or legend-building idealist of the future, it is certain that we are not devoid of myth and folk-lore. Some characters, prosaic enough, perhaps, in daily life, have impinged so lightly on society before and after perpetrating their one or two great deeds, that they have already become shadowy and their achievements have acquired a color of the supernatural. It is where myth and history combine that legend is most interesting and appeals to our fancy or our sympathy most strongly; and it is not too early for us to begin the collation of those quaint happenings and those spoken reports that gain in picturesqueness with each transmission. An attempt has been made in this instance to assemble only legends, for, doubtful as some historians profess to find them, certain occurrences, like the story of Captain Smith and Pocahontas, and the ride of General Putnam down Breakneck Stairs, are taught as history; while as to folk-lore, that of the Indian tribes and of the Southern negro is too copious to be recounted in this work. It will be noted that traditions do not thrive in brick and brownstone, and that the stories once rife in the colonial cities have almost as effectually disappeared as the architectural landmarks of last century. The field entered by the writer is not untrodden. Hawthorne and Irving have made paths across it, and it is hoped that others may deem its farther exploration worthy of their efforts.
# Myths and Legends of Our Own Land/Volume 1/Table of Contents

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Contents of Volume I
# Myths and Legends of Our Own Land/Volume 1/Illustrations

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Illustrations Volume I
# To a Friend (Stephen)

* "To a Friend" in Lapsus Calami (1st edition, April 1891)
* "To a Friend" in Lapsus Calami (4th edition, August 1891)
# Myths and Legends of Our Own Land/Volume 1/The Hudson and its Hills

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The Hudson and its Hills
* Rip Van Winkle
* Catskill Gnomes
* The Catskill Witch
* The Revenge of Shandaken
* Condemned to the Noose
* Big Indian
* The Baker's Dozen
* The Devil's Dance-Chamber
* The Culprit Fay
* Pokepsie
* Dunderberg
* Anthony's Nose
* Moodua Creek
* A Trapper's Ghastly Vengeance
* The Vanderdecken of Tappan Zee
* The Galloping Hessian
* Storm Ship on the Hudson
* Why Spuyten Duyvil is so Named
* The Ramapo Salamander
* Chief Croton
* The Retreat from Mahopac
* Niagara
* The Deformed of Zoar
* Horseheads
* Kayuta and Waneta
* The Drop Star
* The Prophet of Palmyra
* A Villain's Cremation
* The Monster Mosquito
* The Green Picture
* The Nuns of Carthage
* The Skull in the Wall
* The Haunted Mill
* Old Indian Face
* The Division of the Saranacs
* An Event in Indian Park
* The Indian Plume
* Birth of the Water-Lily
* Rogers's Slide
* The Falls at Cohoes
* Francis Woolcott's Night-Riders
* Polly's Lover
* Crosby, the Patriot Spy
* The Lost Grave of Paine
* The Rising of Gouverneur Morris
# Myths and Legends of Our Own Land/Volume 1/Catskill Gnomes

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CATSKILL GNOMES
BEHIND the New Grand Hotel, in the Catskills, is an amphitheatre of mountain that is held to be the place of which the Mohicans spoke when they told of people there who worked in metals, and had bushy beards and eyes like pigs. From the smoke of their forges, in autumn, came the haze of Indian summer; and when the moon was full, it was their custom to assemble on the edge of a precipice above the hollow and dance and caper until the night was ​nigh worn away. They brewed a liquor that had the effect of shortening the bodies and swelling the heads of all who drank it, and when Hudson and his crew visited the mountains, the pygmies held a carouse in his honor and invited him to drink their liquor. The crew went away, shrunken and distorted by the magic distillation, and thus it was that Rip Van Winkle found them on the eve of his famous sleep.
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/To a Friend

Dated February 1891, "To a Friend" appears to have been first published in the first edition of Lapsus Calami.
To a Friend.
# Myths and Legends of Our Own Land/Volume 1/The Catskill Witch

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THE CATSKILL WITCH
WHEN the Dutch gave the name of Katzbergs to the mountains west of the Hudson, by reason of the wild-cats and panthers that ranged there, they obliterated the beautiful Indian Ontiora, "mountains of the sky." In one tradition of the red men these hills were bones of a monster that fed on human beings until the Great Spirit turned it into stone as it was floundering toward the ocean to bathe. The two lakes near the summit were its eyes. These peaks were the home of an Indian witch, who adjusted the weather for the Hudson Valley with the certainty of a signal service bureau. It was she who let out the day and night in blessed alternation, holding back the one when the other was at large, for fear of conflict. Old moons she cut into stars as soon as she had hung new ones in the sky, and she was often seen perched on Round Top and North Mountain, spinning clouds and flinging them to the ​winds. Woe betide the valley residents if they showed irreverence, for then the clouds were black and heavy, and through them she poured floods of rain and launched the lightnings, causing disastrous freshets in the streams and blasting the wigwams of the mockers. In a frolic humor she would take the form of a bear or deer and lead the Indian hunters anything but a merry dance, exposing them to tire and peril, and vanishing or assuming some terrible shape when they had overtaken her. Sometimes she would lead them to the cloves and would leap into the air with a mocking "Ho, ho!" just as they stopped with a shudder at the brink of an abyss. Garden Rock was a spot where she was often found, and at its foot a lake once spread. This was held in such awe that an Indian would never wittingly pursue his quarry there; but once a hunter lost his way and emerged from the forest at the edge of the pond. Seeing a number of gourds in crotches of the trees he took one, but fearing the spirit he turned to leave so quickly that he stumbled and it fell. As it broke, a spring welled from it in such volume that the unhappy man was gulfed in its waters, swept to the edge of Kaaterskill clove and dashed on the rocks two hundred and sixty feet below. Nor did the water ever cease to run, and in these times the stream born of the witch's revenge is known as Catskill Creek.
# Myths and Legends of Our Own Land/Volume 1/The Revenge of Shandaken

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THE REVENGE OF SHANDAKEN
ON the rock platform where the Catskill Mountain House now stands, commanding one of the fairest views in the world, old chief Shandaken set his wigwam, for it is a mistake to suppose that barbarians are indifferent to beauty, and there his daughter, Lotowana, was sought in marriage by his braves. She, however, kept faith to an early vow exchanged with a young chief of the Mohawks. A suitor who was particularly troublesome was Norsereddin, proud, morose, dark-featured, a stranger to the red man, a descendant, so he claimed, from Egyptian kings, and who lived by himself on Kaaterskill Creek, appearing among white settlements but rarely.
On one of his visits to Catskill, a tavern-lounging Dutchman wagered him a thousand golden crowns that he could not win Lotowana, and, stung by avarice as well as inflamed by passion, Norsereddin laid new siege to her heart. Still the girl refused to listen, and Shandaken counselled him to be content with the smiles of others, thereby so angering the Egyptian that he assailed the chief and was driven from the camp with blows; but on the day of Lotowana's wedding with the Mohawk he returned, and in a honeyed speech asked leave to give a jewel to the bride to show that he had stifled jealousy and ill will. The girl took the handsome box he gave her and drew the cover, when a spring flew forward, ​driving into her hand the poisoned tooth of a snake that had been affixed to it. The venom was strong, and in a few minutes Lotowana lay dead at her husband's feet.
Though the Egyptian had disappeared into the forest directly on the acceptance of his treacherous gift, twenty braves set off in pursit, and overtaking him on the Kalkberg, they dragged him back to the rock where father and husband were bewailing the maid's untimely fate. A pile of fagots was heaped within a few feet of the precipice edge, and tying their captive on them, they applied the torch, dancing about with cries of exultation as the shrieks of the wretch echoed from the cliffs. The dead girl was buried by the mourning tribe, while the ashes of Norsereddin were left to be blown abroad. On the day of his revenge Shandaken left his ancient dwelling-place, and his camp-fires never glimmered afterward on the front of Ontiora.
# Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/To a Friend

Dated February 1891, "To a Friend" appears to have been first published in Lapsus Calami.
To a Friend.
# Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/The Critic's Speech

* related authors: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
* sister projects: Wikidata item
A parody of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. First published anonymously in Out of School at Eton (1877). Although included here, it was omitted in the third and subsequent editions.
The Critic's Speech.
# Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/To my Friend's Wife

First published here, but dropped from the third edition and never reinstated.
To my Friend's Wife (reading Murray's Magazine).
# Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/Time's Revenges

First published here but dropped from the third edition and never reinstated.
Time's Revenges.
# Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/Köln, 5 July, 1882. 6.30 a.m.

First published here but dropped from the third edition and never reinstated.
Köln, 5 July, 1882. 6.30 a.m.
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/A Thought

First published (without title) in The Granta, 7 February 1891.
A Thought.
# Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/A Thought

First published (without title) in The Granta, 7 February 1891.
A Thought.
# A Thought (Stephen)

First published (without title) in The Granta, 7 February 1891.
* "A Thought" in Lapsus Calami (1st edition, April 1891)
* "A Thought" in Lapsus Calami (4th edition, August 1891)
# Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/Lines at the River Side

Dated 1873 by his brother, these lines were first published in Out of School at Eton in 1877, and were subsequently included in the first two editions of Lapsus Calami. Although omitted from the third edition on, the poem was restored in the posthumous edition.
Lines at the River Side.
Shewing how the Poet was unfortunately disappointed of a most Tragic Theme.
# Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/"Facilis Descensus Averni"

First published in The Eton Rambler, 18 May 1880, "'Facilis Descensus Averni'" was reprinted in the first two editions of Lapsus Calami. It was omitted from the third, and reinstated in the posthumous edition.
"Facilis Descensus Averni."
# Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/Early School

First published in Out of School at Eton.
Early School.
# Early School

First published in Out of School at Eton.
* "Early School" in Lapsus Calami (1st edition, April 1891)
* "Early School" in Lapsus Calami (4th edition, August 1891)
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/Early School

First published in Out of School at Eton.
Early School.
# Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/Lines written at "Private"

First published in Out of School at Eton and later included in the first two editions of Lapsus Calami. It was dropped from the third edition and never reinstated.
Lines written at "Private."
# Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/An Election Address

First published in the Pall Mall Gazette, 23 November 1882.
An Election Address. (To Cambridge University, 1882.)
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/An Election Address

First published in the Pall Mall Gazette, 23 November 1882.
An Election Address.
(To Cambridge University, 1882.)
# An Election Address

First published in the Pall Mall Gazette, 23 November 1882.
* "An Election Address" in Lapsus Calami (1st edition, April 1891)
* "An Election Address" in Lapsus Calami (4th edition, August 1891)
# Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/To C. S. C.

A tribute to Charles Stuart Calverley. First published in the Pall Mall Gazette.
To C. S. C.
# Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)

First published in April 1891, this transcription is of the first edition.
LAPSUS CALAMI
Cambridge: PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A. AND SONS, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
LAPSUS CALAMI
BY
J. K. S.
Cambridge MACMILLAN AND BOWES 1891
[All Rights reserved]
CONTENTS.
PAGE
COMBI SONGS.
CIRCUIT SONGS.
ELECTION SONGS.
SINCERE FLATTERY.
| I. | Of F. V. H. M. |
| II. | Of R. B. |
* To D. J. S.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)

First published in April 1891, this transcription is of the 4th edition from August of that year.
LAPSUS CALAMI
Cambridge PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY M.A. AND SONS AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LAPSUS CALAMI
BY
J. K. S.
NEW EDITION
WITH CONSIDERABLE OMISSIONS AND ADDITIONS
Cambridge MACMILLAN AND BOWES 1891
[All Rights reserved.]
Printed April 1891. Reprinted from standing type with slight alterations May 1891. New Edition printed June 1891. Fourth Edition printed August 1891.
PIO FUNDATORI.
Post quatuor iam lustra deponens togam iam iam futurus rusticus, alumnus olim, vile consecro tibi, Henrice rex, opusculum.
apud Jemabad, id. Mart. mdcccxci.
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION.
MOST of the pieces comprised in this volume have appeared in one of various Eton, Cambridge and London papers. The curious in such matters can ascertain exact particulars by reference to the earlier editions. In the first two editions will be found numerous verses not included in the present volume: while the greater part of this volume is not included in them. The third edition is substantially the same as this.
J. K. S.
Jemabad, August, 1891.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
SINCERE FLATTERY.
| I. | Of F. W. H. M. |
| II. | Of R. B. |
NOVI LAPSUS.
DE LAPSIBUS PRIORIBUS.
* Two Roundels.
* From Three Fly Leaves.
THE RETORT COURTEOUS.
| I. | England and America. |
| II. | Men and Women. |
RESCUED FROM THE WASTE PAPER BASKET.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
# California v. Krivda

Supreme Court of the United States
409 U.S. 33
California v. Krivda et al.
Certiorari to the Supreme Court of California
No. 71-651. Argued: October 10, 1972 --- Decided: October 24, 1972
It not being clear whether the judgment of the California Supreme Court affirming the lower court is based on federal or state constitutional grounds, or both, and whether this Court has jurisdiction on review, that judgment is vacated and the case remanded.
5 Cal. 3d 357, 486 P. 2d 1262, vacated and remanded.
Russell Iungerich, Deputy Attorney General of California, argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Edward A. Hinz, Jr., Chief Assistant Attorney General, William E. James and S. Clark Moore, Assistant Attorneys General, and William R. Pounders, Deputy Attorney General, joined by John D. LaBelle for the State of Connecticut and by the following Attorneys General: William J. Baxley of Alabama, Gary K. Nelson of Arizona, Ray Thornton of Arkansas, Duke W. Dunbar of Colorado, W. Laird Stabler, Jr., of Delaware, Robert L. Shevin of Florida, Arthur K. Bolton of Georgia, George Pai of Hawaii, W. Anthony Park of Idaho, Theodore L. Sendak of Indiana, Richard C. Turner of Iowa, Jack P.F. Gremillion of Louisiana, Francis B. Burch of Maryland, A.F. Summer of Mississippi, Robert L. Woodahl of Montana, Clarence A.H. Meyer of Nebraska, Robert List of Nevada, Warren B. Rudman of New Hampshire, George F. Kugler, Jr., of New Jersey, Louis J. Lefkowitz of New York, Helgi Johanneson of North Dakota, William J. Brown of Ohio, J. Shane Creamer of Pennsylvania, Richard J. Israel of Rhode Island, Daniel R. McLeod of South Carolina, Gordon Myland of South Dakota, David M. Pack of Tennessee, Crawford C. Martin of Texas, Vernon B. Romney of Utah, James M. Jeffords of Vermont, Andrew P. Miller of Virginia, Ronald H. Tonkin of the Virgin Islands, Slade Gorton of Washington, Robert W. Warren of Wisconsin, and Clarence A. Brimmer of Wyoming.
Roger S. Hanson, by appointment of the Court, 406 U.S. 904, argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief was George R. Milman.
Briefs of amici curiae were filed by William J. Scott, Attorney General, and James B. Zagel, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Illinois; by Frank G. Carrington, Jr., Alan S. Ganz, Glen Murphy, and Wayne W. Schmidt for Americans for Effective Law Enforcement, Inc., et al.; by Melvin L. Wulf, Sanford J. Rosen, Joel M. Gora, A.L. Wirin, Fred Okrand, and Lawrence R. Sperber for the American Civil Liberties Union et al.; by Sheldon Portman and Rose Elizabeth Bird for the California Public Defenders Assn.; and by Theodore A. Gottfried and Marshall J. Hartman for the National Legal Aid and Defender Assn.
PER CURIAM.
# Lapsus Calami (Aug 1891)/To A. T. M.

A parody of Frederic W. H. Myers, first published as "Telepathy" in The Reflector, 22 January 1888. Myers was a founder of the Society for Psychical Research and the coiner of the word telepathy. The reference here is to experiments in which a subject would undergo an experience to see whether a psychic in a neighbouring room could pick it up through some form of extrasensory perception. In this case taste is presumably being tested, and the subject (Arthur Thomas Myers, the poet’s younger brother and a well-known physician, known as "The K" to family and friends) sucks a peppermint to see whether a telepathist in another room could detect what he was tasting.
2. To A. T. M.
# Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/To A. T. M.

* related authors: Frederic William Henry Myers
* sister projects: Wikidata item
A parody of Frederic W. H. Myers, first published as "Telepathy" in The Reflector, 22 January 1888. Myers was a founder of the Society for Psychical Research and the coiner of the word telepathy. The reference here is to experiments in which a subject would undergo an experience to see whether a psychic in a neighbouring room could pick it up through some form of extrasensory perception. In this case taste is presumably being tested, and the subject (Arthur Thomas Myers, the poet’s younger brother and a well-known physician, known as "The K" to family and friends) sucks a peppermint to see whether a telepathist in another room could detect what he was tasting.
2. To A. T. M.
# To A. T. M.

A parody of Frederic W. H. Myers, first published as "Telepathy" in The Reflector, 22 January 1888. Myers was a founder of the Society for Psychical Research and the coiner of the word telepathy. The reference here is to experiments in which a subject would undergo an experience to see whether a psychic in a neighbouring room could pick it up through some form of extrasensory perception. In this case taste is presumably being tested, and the subject (Arthur Thomas Myers, the poet’s younger brother and a well-known physician, known as "The K" to family and friends) sucks a peppermint to see whether a telepathist in another room could detect what he was tasting.
* "To A. T. M." in Lapsus Calami (1st edition, April 1891)
* "To A. T. M." in Lapsus Calami (4th edition, August 1891)
# Myths and Legends of Our Own Land/Volume 1/Big Indian

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BIG INDIAN
INTERMARRIAGES between white people and red ones in this country were not uncommon in the days when our ancestors led as rude a life as the natives, and several places in the Catskills commemorate this fact. Mount Utsayantha, for example, is named for an Indian woman whose life, with that of her baby and her white husband, was lost there. For the white men early found friends among these mountains. As far back as 1663 they spared Catherine Dubois and her three children, after some rash spirits had abducted them and carried them to a place on the upper Walkill, to do them to death; for the captives raised a Huguenot hymn and the hearts of their captors were softened.
In Esopus Valley lived Winnisook, whose height was seven feet, and who was known among the white settlers as "the big Indian." He loved a white girl of the neighborhood, one Gertrude Molyneux, and had asked for her hand; but while she was willing, the objections of her family were too strong to be overcome, and she was teased into marriage with Joseph Bundy, of her own race, instead. She liked the Indian all the better after that, however, because Bundy proved to be a bad fellow, and believing that she could be happier among barbarians than among a people that approved such marriages, she eloped with Winnisook. For a long time all trace of the runaway couple was lost, but one day the man having ​gone down to the plain to steal cattle, it was alleged, was discovered by some farmers who knew him, and who gave hot chase, coming up with him at the place now called Big Indian.
Foremost in the chase was Bundy. As he came near to the enemy of his peace he exclaimed, "I think the best way to civilize that yellow serpent is to let daylight into his heart," and, drawing his rifle to his shoulder, he fired. Mortally wounded, yet instinctively seeking refuge, the giant staggered into the hollow of a pine-tree, where the farmers lost sight of him. There, however, he was found by Gertrude, bolt upright, yet dead. The unwedded widow brought her dusky children to the place and spent the remainder of her days near his grave. Until a few years ago the tree was still pointed out, but a railroad company has now covered it with an embankment.