Seneca myths and folk tales
By: by Arthur C. Parker.
Edition: 1st AMS ed.
Publisher: AMS Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 465
Subjects: Seneca Indians -- Folklore.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 459.
Reprint of the 1923 ed. published by Buffalo Historical Society, Buffalo, N.Y., which was issued as v. 27 of the Society's Publications.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Fundamental factors in Seneca folk lore. Basic premises -- Gods, major spirits and folk-beasts -- Nature brings -- Magic beasts and birds -- Magical man-like beings -- Themes and materials.  Stereotyped objects and incidents -- Components of the cosmological myth -- The atmosphere in which the legends were told -- When the world was new. How the world began -- The brothers who climbed into the sky -- The death panther -- The Great Bear constellation -- The seven brothers of the star cluster -- The seven star dancers -- The coming of spring -- The coming of death -- Boys who defied magic and overcame it. Origin of folk stories -- the forbidden arrow and the quilt of men’s eyes -- Corn Grinder, the grandson -- He-Goes-To-Listen -- Hahtondas, The Listener, finds a wife -- The origin of the chestnut tree -- Divided body rescues a girl -- The origin of the Buffalo Society -- The boy who could not understand -- The boy who lived with the bears -- The seventh son -- The boy who overcame all magic by laughter -- Tales of love and marriage. Two Feathers and Turkey Brother -- Two Feathers and Woodchuck Leggings -- Turkey Boy squeezed the hearts of sorcerers -- Corn rains into empty barrels -- Twentgowa and the mischief maker -- The horned serpent runs away with a girl -- The great serpent and the young wife -- Bushy Head the bewitched warrior -- The flint chip thrower -- Horror tales of cannibals and sorcerers. The duel of the dream test -- The vampire sirens -- Younger brother eludes his sister-in-law -- The island of the cannibal -- The twelve brothers and the wraith -- The cannibal and his nephew -- A youth’s double abuses his sister -- Murdered double speaks through fire -- The vampire corpse -- Tales of talking animals. The man who exhaled fire -- The turtle’s war party -- The race of the turtle and the beaver -- The wolf and the raccoon -- The chipmunk’s stripes -- The rabbit song -- The rabbit gambler -- The raccoon and the crabs -- The crab’s eyes -- How the squirrel gave a blanket, etc. -- The chickadee’s song -- The bird woman -- The partridge’s song -- Tales of giants, pygmies and monster bears. A tale of the djogeon or pygmies -- Beyond-The-Rapids and the stone giant -- The animated finger -- The stone giant’s battle -- The boy and the false face -- How a bot outwitted a nia”gwahe -- Nia”gwajie, the mammoth bear -- The boy and the nja”gwajie -- Traditions. Seneca belief in witchcraft -- Contents of a charm holder’s bundle -- Contents of a witch bundle -- Overcoming a witch -- The scorned witch woman -- Catching a witch bundle -- Witch with a dog transformation -- Witch steals children’s hearts -- Hotciwaho (hammer in his belt) -- How America was discovered -- Origin of the Charm Holder’s Medicine Society -- Origin of the False Face Company -- Origin of the long house -- Dead timber, a tradition of Albany -- Appendix A : origin of the world -- Appendix B : the Wyandot creation myth -- Appendix C : an interview with “Esq.” Johnson by Mrs. Asher Wright -- Appendix D : emblematic trees in Iroquoian mythology -- Appendix E : the society that guards the mystic potence.