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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