Chapter II: 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