Part 1

Produced by Julie Barkley, Sam W. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net

FOLK-LORE

AND

LEGENDS

NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN

W. W. GIBBINGS 18 BURY ST., LONDON, W.C. 1890

FOLK-LORE AND LEGENDS

NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN

UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME.

"These dainty little books."--STANDARD.

FOLK-LORE AND LEGENDS.

FIRST SERIES.

1. GERMAN. 2. ORIENTAL. 3. SCOTLAND. 4. IRELAND.

SECOND SERIES.

1. ENGLAND. 2. SCANDINAVIAN. 3. RUSSIAN. 4. NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN.

"They transport us into a romantic world."--TIMES.

PREFATORY NOTE.

It might have been expected that the Indians of North America would have many Folklore tales to tell, and in this volume I have endeavoured to present such of them as seemed to me to best illustrate the primitive character and beliefs of the people. The belief, and the language in which it is clothed, are often very beautiful. Fantastic imagination, magnanimity, moral sentiment, tender feeling, and humour are discovered in a degree which may astonish many who have been apt to imagine that advanced civilisation has much to do with the possession of such qualities. I know of nothing that throws so much light upon Indian character as their Folk-tales.

CONTENTS

PAGE

Moowis, 1

The Girl who Married the Pine-tree, 9

A Legend of Manabozho, 11

Pauppukkeewis, 15

The Discovery of the Upper World, 33

The Boy who Snared the Sun, 37

The Maid in the Box, 41

The Spirits and the Lovers, 45