At the font of the marvelous
Subtitle: exploring oral narrative and mythic imagery of the Iroquois and their neighbors
By: Anthony Wonderley.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Iroquois and their neighbors
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780815632078
Subjects: Iroquois Indians -- Folklore; Algonquian Indians -- Folklore; Indian mythology -- New York (State); Indian mythology -- Ontario; Oral history -- New York (State); Oral history -- Ontario; Folklore -- New York (State); Folklore -- Ontario; New York (State) -- Social life and customs; Ontario -- Social life and customs
Genres: Folklore.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Oral narrative of the Iroquois and their neighbors; title: Iroquois star lore : what does it mean?; title: War in the west : nineteenth-century Iroquois legends of conquest; title: Killer lizards, Eldritch fish, and horned serpents; title: Old good twin : Sky Holder during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; title: The story of Windigo; title: The friendly visitor : an Iroquois stone giant goes calling in Algonquian country; title: Mythic imagery in Iroquoian archaeology.