The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-03-17
ACKERMAN-STEWART
DRUG co.

nlan was so successful that in short
while the human race would have per
ished from off the earth, had not the
tender herbs and plants taken pity on
poor human beings. They, In turn,
held a convention in which they
agreed that each herb, plant and tree
should afford a cure for some of the
diseases that humanity is subject TO-
With the use of the remedy certain
magic sentences must be repeated,
There were charms to cure fevers,
frostbites, bad dreams and witchery,
besides many other ills.
There were words, too, that a hun
ter must say when he went into the
forest after game, else his arrow
would miss the mrak. But no matter
what lamentations he had repeated,
something more was required in case
the hunter should kill the deer. He
must sprinkle the blood Of the animal
on the spot where the deer fell and:
kneeling on the ground, must beg the
poor deer's pardon for having killed
lit. Then he may safely shoulder his
game and return to his lodge. No
sooner has he gone than Awi Usdi
the little magic white deer, who leads
all the herds of deer in the world, APP
pears. Softly comes Awi Usdi
Bending low and shifting the GROUND
he asks, "Did the hunter beg par
DOM" If the answer is yes, all !:
well, and he goes on his way. Il
the answer is, "No," the Little Deer
follows the hunter to his lodge, enters
Iinvisibly and strikes the man witt
rheumatism for the rest of his life
No herb, no charm, no prayer car
ever cure him.
Cherokee notions of astronomy
were curious. They thought ths
sky was a great stone arch that Gov
cred the flat earth like lid upon {
plate. 1t rose and fell twice day
the story-teller said. When it lifted
in the morning the sun slipped
through on the east side, before it fel
again, and travelled along the under
side of the stone arch till it reached
the west in the evening. When the
sky rose again the sun slippef
through the crack and ran along the
outside of the arch till it reached ths
east again in the morning.
The Great Thunder and his two
sons, the Thunder Boys, lived in the
west part of the sky. A glimpse Of
their bright garments was often seer
in the lightning flash or the ga.
tints of the rainbow.
In the north part of the sky liver
the Icicle Man. He sat there Away!
, plating his long hair. Whenever hi
lifted braid and struck it against hi,
wrist rain began to fall. If he strucl
twice, the drops froze as they fell
At the third stroke the air was full O.
ice and snow.
Everybody knows, said the story
teller, that when the sun grows dari
, Through eclipse) that it is because
the great frog who lives in the crew
, ices of the sky is trying to swallow
, the sun. The only thing to be dont
in such a case is for all the people t.
run out of doors and clap their hand
and shout and beat the drums till the
great frog is frightened away. Their
the sun gets all right again.
, Once there was a man, according
to the story-teller, who as he walkec
) along saw some strange people play
ing ball. He noticed that the leader
on one side became angered at seeing
the other side was about to win, an,
that he caught up the ball in hi.
hands (Which was against the rules O.
the game), and tossing it from him
, gave it kick that sent it flying up
up, up till it struck against the ston;
sky, and lodged there. 1t is there /,
this day and people cali it the moon.
The Cherokee belived in fairy-folk
especially in the Little People,
, Yunwi Tsunsdi, who l am sure 20,
, know are those creatures who com,
, at night and smooth out all the care!
-, of the day. If the faithful hunte
, has returned home at night unsuc
). cessful, he finds meat laid at his doc
next morning. If the corn has beer
but half gathered, for lack of tim,
and strength, the Little People com,
at night and garner it into the man
, crib. But if he hears them at worl