MYTHS
OF
THE IROQUOIS.

BY
ERMINNIE A. SMITH.

CONTENTS.

•  Page.
• Chapter I.—Gods and other supernatural beings 51
• Hi-nuⁿ destroying the giant animals 54
• A Seneca legend of Hi-nuⁿ and Niagara 54
• The Thunderers 55
• Echo God 58
• Extermination of the Stone Giants 59
• The North Wind 59
• Great Head 59
• Cusick's story of the dispersion of the Great Heads 62
• The Stone Giant's wife 62
• The Stone Giant's challenge 63
• Hiawatha and the Iroquois wampum 64
• Chapter II.—Pigmies 65
• The warrior saved by pigmies 65
• The pigmies and the greedy hunters 66
• The pigmy's mission 67
• Chapter III.—Practice of sorcery 68
• The origin of witches and witch charms 69
• Origin of the Seneca medicine 70
• A "true" witch story 71
• A case of witchcraft 72
• An incantation to bring rain 72
• A cure for all bodily injuries 73
• A witch in the shape of a dog 73
• A man who assumed the shape of a hog 73
• Witch transformations 74
• A superstition about flies 74
• Chapter IV.—Mythologic explanation of phenomena 75
• Origin of the human race 76
• Formation of the Turtle Clan 77
• How the bear lost his tail 77
• Origin of medicine 78
• Origin of wampum 78
• Origin of tobacco