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Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians: Title Page 17. The Ukteni 245 18. The Tlnuwâ (27) 246 19. The pygmies (28) 247 20. The frog that lost his wife 248 21. The panther and the crane 248 22. The opossum (48) 249 23. The wolves and the fawn (49) 249 24. Terrapin and Deer (57) 252 25. The fox and the crawfish 252 26. The crane and the humming bird (50) 253 27. The owl and the perch 253 28. The turtle 254 29. Turkey and Wildcat 254 30. The bungling host (58) 254 31. Rabbit and Alligator (59, 60) 255 32. The wolf and the rabbit (61, 62) 256 33. The tar baby (63) 258 34. Rabbit and Wildcat (64) 259 35. Rabbit and Man-eater (65) 259 36. Story of a bison 261 37. The bison helper 261 38. The mosquito 262 39. The Indian Munchausen (74) 262 40. The twelve Irishmen (75) 264 41. The two Irishmen 265 42. Jack and the beanstalk 265 43. The simpleton 266 file:///I|/mythology/american indian/41/41.html (12 of 164) [01/24/2004 9:03:18 AM]
p. 1 MYTHS AND TALES OF THE SOUTHEASTERN INDIANS By JOHN R. SWANTON INTRODUCTION The greater part of the accompanying material was collected by the writer between the years 1908 and 1914. Among the Creek myths, however, are included most of those secured by W. O. Tuggle many years ago, the originals of which are preserved among the documents in the Bureau of American Ethnology. The rest were taken down at various places and from various persons, and for the most part in English, no systematic attempt having been made at what might be called a Creek collection. The Alabama stories are from the Alabama Indians living in Polk County, Tex., and the Koasati stories from some of the same informants and from the Koasati near Kinder, La. The Hitchiti stories were obtained from a few speakers of the Hitchiti language in the, northern part of Seminole County, Okla., part of them having been recorded directly, while part were written down in the original by an Indian. The Natchez collection, so called, was secured from one of the few remaining speakers of the ancient Natchez tongue residing near Braggs, Okla., a man named Watt Sam. This informant had drawn not merely upon his own people but upon his Cherokee and Creek neighbors, and it would now be impossible to say how much of the collection is pure Natchez, or, indeed, whether any of it may be so denominated. These stories and those from the Hitchiti, Koasati, and Alabama were also recorded in text form. No attempt has been made to separate these stories into classes, but the following general order has been observed. Stories which deal with natural phenomena or the doings of ancient native heroes, such as might more properly be called myths, have been placed first. Next have been entered stories of visits to the world of the dead, of which there are few, as it happens, except in the Alabama series. Then come stories detailing encounters between men and animals or supernatural beings in animal form. After these have been placed tales dealing with happenings among the animals, concluding with all of those having to do with the Southeastern trickster Rabbit. Then appear stories--or other stories--known to have been borrowed from the whites or Negroes, or such as probably had such an origin, and at the end a few war tales of miscellaneous character. p. 2 Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians: Title Page The native attitude toward these was, of course, various, some no doubt having been originally sacred legends embodying actual beliefs, while others were told for amusement. Only in the Natchez series have I any absolute clew as to which were considered sacred and the reverse. My Natchez informant stated that certain stories, among which he included numbers 2, 4, 5, 9, 13, 18, 23, 30, and the stories about the tie-snake, must be told only during cold weather. Otherwise bad luck would follow. This list was communicated to me before I had collected all of the Natchez stories here given and it is, therefore, defective. It is of value only as indicating that such a distinction was made. It is surprising that such tales as "The Bungling Host" and "The Wolves and the Fawn" should be included. 1 Footnotes 2:1 Some of the stories included in this bulletin were printed in The Journal of American Folk-Lore, vol. xxvi, no. ci, 1913. CREEK STORIES 1. HOW DAY AND NIGHT WERE DIVIDED (Tuggle collection) The animals held a meeting and No-koos-see (Nokosi), the Bear, presided. The question was, how to divide day and night. Some desired the day to last all the time; others wished it all night. After much talk, Chew-thlock-chew (Tciloktco), the ground squirrel, said: "I see that Woot-Kew (Wotko), the Coon, has rings on his tail divided equally, first a dark color then a light color. I think day and night file:///I|/mythology/american indian/41/41.html (13 of 164) [01/24/2004 9:03:18 AM]
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HITCHITI STORIES 1. BEAR, TIGER, RA
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the thing sitting on the eggs flew
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we had better move from here. Do yo
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16. THE HUNTER AND THE TIE-SNAKE (2
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He stuck a stick into his nose, ran
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to prove it." When Rabbit told the
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p. 109 31. RABBIT AND WILDCAT Rabbi
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36. RABBIT IS SENT WITH MEDICINE A
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p. 116 Some time afterwards a man o
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to fight. But the Alabama who had r
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8. HOW WATER WAS LOST AND RECOVERED
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she approached. The third night the
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"Cut off a piece of your body and r
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walks about," and she answered, "Th
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They went on and came to another pe
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am a panther," and jumped up upon i
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lying. He came to the camp. The oth
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32. THE BEAR PEOPLE (29) The people
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its young ones. Then it followed an
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could not be detected. Then no Choc
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adly hurt. In the morning Rabbit sa
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up again. After this had happened s
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3. THE STARS-IN-A-ROW Three persons
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my grandmother's basket." "No, she
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He went on until he came to where t
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But when they got home, their mothe
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17. THE OBSTACLE FLIGHT (9) Big Man
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21. THE GIANT ELK (46) A man travel
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26. STORY OF TWO BROTHERS WHO TRIED
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threw him down to be food for an ea
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38. THE MAN WHO TREATED A GHOST (24
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"Opossum called me 'LMfga tail.' Wh
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Big Man-eater said, "I can bring it
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on the rock and when he began chopp
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63. RABBIT FOOLS WILDCAT (69) While
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him and then go back to the limb, s
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218:2 An old Natchez story. Footnot
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p. 224 The boys played around in th
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Not long afterwards the boys said,
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to him. "I am going to my mother's.
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oy said, "If you have any relations
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11. ADOPTION OF THE HUMAN RACE The
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"Your wife and the one who stole he
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19. THE PYGMIES (28) There is a rac
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troubled with headache, and I don't
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answer, "It is hurting him where I
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whooping. 34. RABBIT AND WILDCAT (6
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39. THE INDIAN MUNCHAUSEN (74) A ma
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COMPARISON OF MYTHS The accompanyin
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ut it so happens that something of
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49. The Wolves and the Fawn: Natche
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