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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION TO THE BISON BOOK EDITION xi
FOREWORD xix
INTRODUCTION xxiii
I. FUNDAMENTAL FACTORS IN SENECA FOLK
LORE 		1
BASIC PREMISES 3
GODS, MAJOR SPIRITS AND FOLK-BEASTS 5
NATURE BEINGS 10
MAGIC BEASTS AND BIRDS 16
MAGICAL MAN-LIKE BEINGS 18
II. THEMES AND MATERIALS 23
STEREOTYPED OBJECTS AND INCIDENTS 27
COMPONENTS OF THE COSMOLOGICAL MYTH 33
III. THE ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH THE LEGENDS
WERE TOLD 		37
IV. WHEN THE WORLD WAS NEW 57
1. HOW THE WORLD BEGAN 59
2. THE BROTHERS WHO CLIMBED INTO THE SKY 74
3. THE DEATH PANTHER 78
4. THE GREAT BEAR CONSTELLATION 81
5. THE SEVEN BROTHERS OF THE STAR CLUSTER 83
6. THE SEVEN STAR DANCERS 86
7. THE COMING OF SPRING 88
8. THE COMING OF DEATH 92
V. BOYS WHO DEFIED MAGIC AND OVERCAME IT 95
9. ORIGIN OF FOLK STORIES 97
10. THE FORBIDDEN ARROW AND THE QUILT OF MEN'S EYES 101
11. CORN GRINDER, THE GRANDSON 108
12. HE-GOES-TO-LISTEN 116
13. HAHTONDAS, THE LISTENER, FINDS A WIFE 122
14. THE ORIGIN OF THE CHESTNUT TREE 128
15. DIVIDED BODY RESCUES A GIRL 133
16. THE ORIGIN OF THE BUFFALO SOCIETY 137
17. THE BOY WHO COULD NOT UNDERSTAND 142
18. THE BOY WHO LIVED WITH THE BEARS 147
19. THE SEVENTH SON 154
20. THE BOY WHO OVERCAME ALL MAGIC BY LAUGHTER 159

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Publication Information: Book Title: Seneca Myths and Folk Tales. Contributors: Arthur C. Parker - author. Publisher: University of Nebraska Press. Place of Publication: Lincoln, NE. Publication Year: 1989. Page Number: vii.
    
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