Part 1. Material Collected by Jeremiah Curtin
FICTION
1. The sister and her six elder brothers 75 2. The child and his uncle 81 3. Djogeon and his uncle 84 4. The woman who married a great serpent 86 5. The ghost woman and the hunter 90 6. Hahnowa and his forces on the warpath 92 7. The old man’s grandson and the chief of the deserted village 95 8. The man who married a buffalo woman 98 9. A woman and her bear lover 102 10. The fox and the rabbit 105 11. The snake with two heads 106 12. A hunter pursued by Genonsgwa 106 13. The grandmother and her granddaughter 111 14. The woman who became a snake from eating fish 111 15. Gaqga makes a journey and kills many people 113 16. Ohohwa and the two sisters 115 17. A great snake battle 117 18. The Ongwe Ias and his younger brother 118 19. Haieñdoñnis and Yenogeauns 121 20. The man with a panther-skin robe and his brother with a turkey-skin robe 127 21. Deadoeñdjadases and the old woman’s grandson 135 22. Hatʻhondas (the Listener) 139 23. The story of the Ohohwa people 144 24. The chestnut tree guarded by the seven sisters 147 25. The otter’s heart and the claw fetishes 151 26. The seven sisters who produce wampum 154 27. The forsaken infant and Gaha 160 28. The old man and the boy 162 29. The story of the girls who went for a husband 166 30. The creation of man 168 31. Ganiagwaihegowa 169 32. The man who became a fish, and a Ganiagwaihe 169 33. A dead man speaks to his mother through the fire 172 34. The potent boy 176 35. The faithless wife and the three old men 180 36. The Dagwanoenyent and her husband 187 37. A raccoon story 191 38. The self-sacrifice of two dogs for their master 193 39. The three young women 195 40. Hinon and the Seneca warriors 197 41. Hodadeñon and Yenyentʻhwus 199 42. The uncle and his nephew 223 43. Hinon saves a woman from suicide 228 44. The crawfish and the raccoon 229 45. The race between the turtle and the bear 229 46. The woman who became a man-eater through the orenda of her husband’s dogs 231 47. Ganyadjigowa 236 48. Hadentʻheni and Hanigongendatʻha 251 49. Dagwanoenyent 261 50. The shaman and his nephew 262 51. The horned snake and the young woman 268 52. The man pursued by his sister-in-law 270 53. The story of bloody hand 273 54. The seven stars of the dipper 276 55. The story of the two brothers 277 56. Hodionskon 283 57. The cannibal uncle, his nephew, and the nephew’s invisible brother 285 58. Doonongaes and Tsodiqgwadon 296
LEGENDS
59. Genonsgwa 341 60. The grandmother and her grandson 347 61. Heart squeezing and the dance of naked persons 355 62. Hotʻho, the Winter God 356 63. Sʻhagodiyoweqgowa and his three brothers 357 64. The moose wife 361 65. Sʻhagodiyoweqgowa 365 66. The porcupine’s grandson and the bear 365 67. Genonsgwa 369 68. Hinon Hohawaqk and his grandmother 372 69. Hagowanen and Otʼhegwenhda 376 70. Okteondon and Haieñtʻhwus. Part I 389 71. Okteondon and Haieñtʻhwus. Part II 399 72. Uncle and nephew and the white otters 401 73. Deoyadastatʻhe and Hodjowiski 406 74. A genesis tradition 409 75. The two brothers and the mice fetishes 415 76. The orphan 417 77. The great worm and Hinon 420 78. The chipmunk and the bear 421 79. The great white beaver and the Lake of the Enchanted Waters 422
TRADITIONS
80. Ganon, the Seneca war chief 428 81. Hatcinondon: A historical tradition 432 82. Godiont and the Sʻhagodiyoweqgowa 436 83. Sʻhagodiyoweqgowa 437 84. Sʻhagodiyoweqgowa 437 85. Genonsgwa 437 86. Genonsgwa 439 87. Genonsgwa 440 88. Genonsgwa 440 89. Genonsgwa 441 90. Bald Eagle sends Mud Turtle around the world 450 91. The poor hunter and Djogeon 452 92. The man killed by the three hunters 453 93. Hinon and the Iroquois 456
TALES
94. A shaman’s deed 457 95. Sʻhagodiyoweqgowa (modern) 457 96. Sʻhagodiyoweqgowa 458 97. The vampire skeleton 458
MYTHS
98. A tale of the sky world 460 99. Sʻhagodiyoweqgowa and Hotʻhoh 462 100. The morning star and the cannibal wife 464 101. The woman and the cannibal thunder 469 102. Gaqga and Sgagedi 472 103. Dagwanoenyent and Gaasyendietʻha 474 104. Dagwanoenyentgowa Sʻhagodigendji and Yenonsgwa 481 105. The twelve brothers and their uncle, Dagwanoenyent 485 106. Ongwe Ias and his brother, Dagwanoenyent 488
MEDICAL NOTE
107. Notes on the medicine nikahnegaah 491