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Excerpt from Huron and Wyandot Mythology: With an Appendix Containing Earlier Published Records
Other etiological myths; The big turtle myth; The contest of the big turtle, land animals, and fowls; The little grey woodpecker and the Indian maid; The twins and the cave people; The skunks' league against smallpox; Sociological myths, or myths of origin of power and Social Standing; Origin of the phratries; The origin of the Snake clan; The Snake clan's myth of origin; The Snake clan; The Snake clan's myth; The Lion fraternity's myth of origin; The white otter and the Ustura feast; The eagle and the hunter; The hunter and the eagle; The snake and the hunter's stepson; The wolf and the young man; The lion and the hunter; The lion and the boy; The maple and the woman; The hunter and the dwarf woman; The beaver giving "powers"; How a poor man became a medicine-man; The bear and the hunter's stepson; The bear and the stepson; The mother-bear and the stepson; The bear and the hunter's son; The ill-treated husband; The seven brothers transformed into oxen; Charms derived from monsters; The ground-squirrel and the lion monsters; The ground-squirrel and the flying lion; The monster lizard and the hunter; The boy and his pet snake
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Excerpt from Huron and Wyandot Mythology: With an Appendix Containing Earlier Published Records
The nature of the material itself seems to call for the fol lowing Classification, which has been adhered to in the present memoir: (i) myths or traditional narratives, in the truth of which the Hurons and Wyandots used to believe; (ii) tales, acknowledged by them to be mere fiction; and (iii) traditions or narratives bearing on the history of the tribe.
In the mythology proper are included: (a) traditional accounts and description of the origin of the world, the cosmo gonic deities, and beings; (b) etiological myths on a number of natural phenomena 2 and (c) various social events of the past.'
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