MYTHS AND TALES OF THE SOUTHEASTERN INDIANS

586 Pages·1995·1.33 MB·English

by  John Swanton

title: Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians
author: Swanton, John Reed.
publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin: 0806127848
print isbn13: 9780806127842
ebook isbn13: 9780585168852
language: English
Indians of North America--Southern States-
subject
-Folklore.
publication date: 1995
lcc: E78.S65S92 1995eb
ddc: 398.2/08997075
Indians of North America--Southern States-
subject:
-Folklore.
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Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians
by
John R. Swanton
INTRODUCTION BY GEORGE E. LANKFORD
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS
NORMAN AND LONDON
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Swanton, John Reed, 18731958.
Myths and tales of the southeastern Indians / by John R. Swanton ; foreword by George E. Lankford.
p. cm.
Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology, 1929.
ISBN 0-8061-2784-8 (alk. paper)
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Contents
Introduction xi
George E. Lankford
Creek Stories
[The numbers in parentheses refer to the classification
given in the Comparison of Myths, pages 267275.]
1. How day and night were divided 2
2. Bead-spitter and Thrown-away (3, 10) 2
3. The orphan (43) 7
4. Thunder Helper (43) 8
5. The origin of corn (4) 9
6. The orphan and the origin of corn (4, 6) 10
7. The orphan and the origin of corn (second version) (4, 13
6)
8. The orphan and the origin of corn (third version) (6) 15
9. The only son and Rabbit (6) 17
10. The origin of tobacco (15) 19
11. The origin of tobacco (second version) (15) 19
12. The origin of tobacco (third version) (15) 19
13. Man-eater and the little girl (The magic flight) (9) 20
14. The water panther 21
15. How the alligator's nose was broken 22
16. Story of the bat (52) 23
17. The friendly dogs 23
18. The hunter and his dogs (25) 25
19. The monster lizard 26
20. The hunter, the monster lizard, and the panther (33) 27
21. The hunter, the monster lizard, and the panther 28
(second version) (33)
22. The racing snake (34) 29
23. The man who became a snake (35) 30
24. The man who became a snake (second version) (35) 31
25. The man who became a snake (third version) (35) 32
26. The man who became a snake (fourth version) (35) 33
27. The man who became a snake (fifth version) (35) 34
28. The king of the tie-snakes (41) 34
29. The story of the turkey (39) 36
30. The monster turtle (44) 36
31. The monster turtle (second version) (44) 37
32. The big rock man 38
33. The woman and the monster earthworm (40) 38
34. The fawn, the wolves, and the terrapin (49) 38
35. How the terrapin's back came to be in checks (53) 40
36. How the terrapin's back came to be in checks (second41
version) (53)
37. Why the opossum has no hair on his tail 41
38. Why the opossum has no hair on his tail (second 41
story) (49)
39. The race between the crane and the humming bird 42
(50)
40. Rabbit gets Man-eater over to the other side of the 42
ocean (65)
41. Rabbit gets Man-eater over to the other side of the 42
ocean (second version) (65)
42. Rabbit gets Man-eater over to the other side of the 43
ocean (third version) (65)
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43. Rabbit gets Man-eater over to the other side of the 44
ocean (fourth version) (65)
44. Rabbit steals fire (67) 46
45. Rabbit tries a game of scratch with Wildcat 46
46. Rabbit gets a turkey for Wildcat (64) 47
47. Rabbit gets a turkey for Wildcat (second version) 47
(64)
48. Raccoon gets a deer for Panther (64) 48
49. Rabbit engineers a tug of war between two tie-snakes48
(70)
50. Rabbit engineers a tug of war between two tie-snakes49
(second version) (70)
51. Rabbit engineers a tug of war between two tie-snakes49
(third version) (70)
52. Rabbit engineers a tug of war between Tie-snake and 50
Man-eater (70)
53. Rabbit engineers a tug of war between two bison (70)50
54. Rabbit fools Alligator (70) 51
55. Rabbit fools Alligator (second version) 52
56. Terrapin races (57) 53
57. Terrapin races (second version) (57) 53
58. Terrapin races (third version) (57) 54
59. Terrapin races (fourth version) (57) 54
60. Terrapin races (fifth version) (57) 54
61. The bungling host (58) 55
62. How Rabbit won his wife's sister for his second wife 57
63. Turkey, Turtle, and Rattlesnake (42) 57
64. The tasks of Rabbit (54, 68) 58
65. The tasks of Rabbit (second version) (54) 59
66. The tasks of Rabbit (third version) (54) 60
67. Why the rabbit steals (60) 61
68. Why the oppossum looks ashamed (60) 61
69. How Rabbit got the widow's daughter 62
70. How Rabbit got the widow's daughter (second 62
version)
71. Rabbit fools Coyote (69) 63
72. Rabbit rides Wolf (61, 69, 71) 64
73. Rabbit rides Wolf (second version) (61, 71) 66
74. Rabbit rides Wolf (third version) (61) 67
75. The tar baby (63) 68
76. Rabbit deceives the other animals (72) 69
77. Rabbit escapes from the box (66) 70
78. Rabbit's imposition is detected 71
79. The flight to the tree (76) 72
80. Cow and Dog are discontented 73
81. The language of the animals 74
82. The origin of races 74
83. The origin of races (second version) 75
84. The ordering of field work (5) 76
85. The devil's tasks 76
86. The boy and the lion 79
87. The animal helpers 81
88. A bear drive (a hunting story) 82
89. A legend recorded by Bartram 83
90. The creation of the earth (a Yuchi story) (1) 84
91. The monkey girl (an African story) 85
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Hitchiti Stories
1. Bear, Tiger, Rattlesnake, and Fire (12) 87
2. The origin of tobacco (15) 87
3. The origin of wolves 88
4. The boy and the wizards (38) 88
5. The man-eating bird 89
6. The visit to the nest of the monster bird (27) 90
7. A strange turkey catches people and carries them up 90
to the sky (39)
8. The deer women (47) 91
9. The hunter and his dogs (25) 92
10. The hunter and his dogs (second version) (25) 93
11. The man and the owl (37) 94
12. The orphan and the owl 95
13. The alligator that stole a man 95
14. Story of the lizard (40) 96
15. The monster lizard (33) 96
16. The hunter and the tie-snake (26) 97
17. The man who became a snake (35) 97
18. The water people (41) 98
19. A Rip Van Winkle story (42) 99