Iroquois Supernatural · Talking Animals and Medicine People by Bastine, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Introduction: The Iroquois Supernatural—Reaching Beyond the Sacred The Longhouse Folk

The Iroquois Origins The League of Six Nations The Longhouse The Nations Iroquois Languages Iroquois Religious Influences Into the Woods

The Witches’ Craft

Iroquois Witches Two Kinds of Witches Spotting a Witch Getting to the Root of the Hex Arthur C. Parker on Witchcraft Onondaga Witches Mary Jemison on Witchcraft The Heart of a Black Bird Witch Bones A Witch’s Bag The Witch John Jemison Two Seneca Witch Trials Kauquatau Witch Children

The Witches’ Torch

Witch Lights Anomalous Light Phenomena The Hills of Rochester The Lights of Oswego Bitter Indian Hill Train Tracks and Witch Lights The Hill of Dead Witches Onondaga Witch Lights A Metaphysical Contract Ghostly Walks and Phantom Hosts Joe Bruchac on Witch Lights

Medicine People

An Aura of the Spirit Bear and Ted Witch Doctors Diviners of Mysteries Herbs and Healings The Seventh Son Medicine Bags Sabael and the Medicine Beads For the Unborn Children Mad Bear’s Method of Reading Weapons of Friendship House Clearings

The False Faces

The Medicine Mask Society The Headman of the Faces Doctors and Doorkeepers Beggars and Thieves Opening the Eyes Masks and Museums Two Healers and the Masks Other Masked Healers Unmasked Healers The Call of the Masks The Good Crop Power People Ted Williams’s Tales of the False Faces

Supernatural War

Directed Curses Calling the Ancestors The Liver Tree Curse The Dust Devil of Boughton Hill The Curse of the Bones Signs of Supernatural War

Power Spaces

Witches’ Walk Hill of the Crows Green Lake Squakie Hill Fort Hill and Bluff Point The Valley of Madness The Hill and the Stone Kinzua The Great Falls Snake Hill The Angel’s Mountain Taughannock Falls Lost Nation The Dale Lake Eldridge High Rock Spring The Great Hill The Seneca National Creation Tale Ring of Honor

The Supernatural Zoo

The Celts and the Iroquois The Fearsome Foursome The Stone Giants The Great Flying Heads The Vampire Corpse Super Serpents The Thunderers The Monster Bear High Hat The Legs The Mischief Maker Longnose The Giant Mosquito The Witch Hawk The Servers The Evil-Soul Gatherer The Underground Buffalo White Deer of the Genesee

Talking Animals

Special Animals Witch and Shape-Shifter Changelings Shape-Shifters Altered Animals Animal Clans The Tender of the Flame The Animals Talking The Songs of the Dogs

The Little People

The Wee Folk Three Nations Imparting a Ritual Nineteenth-Century Little People Two Nations The Fairy Fishers The Second Nation Lanes of the Little People The Djogao Skull Fairy Trees

The Land of the Elders

The Old Spirits Five Iroquois Motifs The Haunted Battlefield Rogers Island The Darkness on the Hill The Wailing Spirits The Ontario County Courthouse The Kicking Chief of Cooperstown The Five Ghosts of Red Jacket The Tonawanda Presbyterian Haunted Roads Delaware Avenue Black Nose Springs Road The Forbidden Trail 13 Curves West Road Route 5 The Spirit World I Feel My Friends Here Bloody Mary The Chief of the Blue Heron The Land of the Elders The Spirit Choirs

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