Chapter Vi : {p. 150} CHAPTER VI ANIMAL WIVES AND HUSBANDS LVII. THE PIQUED BUFFALO-WIFE[222] (BLACKFOOT: Wissler And Duvall, "Anthropological Papers Of The American Museum Of Natural History", Ii, 117, No. 28) ONCE a young man went out and came to a buffalo-cow fast in the mire. He took advantage of her...
Chapter Viii : {p. 201} CHAPTER VIII TALES BORROWED FROM EUROPEANS[288] Well-established titles to European tales have been retained, even though in some instances their appropriateness to the American Indian borrowings is not immediately apparent. LXXVIII. THE SEVEN-HEADED DRAGON[219] (OJIBWA: Skinner, Journal...
Chapter Ii : {p. 38} CHAPTER II MYTHICAL INCIDENTS X. THE LIZARD-HAND[59] (YOKUTS: Kroeber, "University Of California Publications In -American Archaeology And Ethnology", Iv, 231, No. 38) It was Coyote who brought it about that people die.[51] He made it thus because our hands are not closed like his. He...
Chapter I : TALES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS [STITH THOMPSON, 1929] {p. 3} CHAPTER I MYTHOLOGICAL STORIES I. SEDNA, MISTRESS OF THE UNDERWORLD (Eskimo: Boas, "Report Of The Bureau Of American Ethnology", Vi, 583) Once upon a time there lived on a solitary shore an Inung with his daughter Sedna. His wife had...
Chapter Iv : {p. 78} CHAPTER IV HERO TALES[110] XXXIX. THE SUN TESTS HIS SON-IN-LAW[111] (BELLA COOLA: Boas, "Jesup North Pacific Expedition", I, 73) In a place on Bella Coola River, there used to be a salmon-weir. A chief and his wife lived at this place. One day the wife was cutting salmon on the bank...
Chapter V : {p. 126} CHAPTER V JOURNEYS TO THE OTHER WORLD[192] L. THE STAR HUSBAND[193] TYPE I: THE WISH TO MARRY A STAR (TIMAGAMI OJIBWA: Speck, "Memoirs Of The Geological Survey Of Canada: Anthropological Series", Ix, 47) At the time of which my story speaks people were camping just as we are here...
Chapter Ix : {p. 261} CHAPTER IX BIBLE STORIES[304] XCIII. ADAM AND EVE[305] (THOMPSON: Teit, "Jesup North Pacific Expedition", Viii, 399, No. 105) WHEN this earth was very young, only two people lived on it,--a man called A'taam and a woman called Iim. The Chief (or God) lived in the upper world...
Chapter Vii : {p. 174} CHAPTER VII MISCELLANEOUS TALES LXVII. THE DESERTED CHILDREN[255] (GROS VENTRE: Kroeber, "Anthropological Papers Of The American Museum Of Natural History", I, 102, No. 26) THERE was a camp. All the children went off to play. They went to some distance. Then one man said, "Let us ab...
Chapter Iii : {p. 53} CHAPTER III TRICKSTER TALES[78] XXIV. MANABOZHO'S ADVENTURES[79] (Episodes A And B, OJIBWA: Radin, "Memoirs Of The Geological Survey Of Canada"; Anthropological Series, Ii, 2-3.--Episodes C And D, MENOMINI: Hoffman, "Report Of The Bureau Of American Ethnology", XIV, 203.--Episodes E And F...
