Métraux. Myths of the Toba and Pilagá

Today's free book is Myths of the Toba and Pilagá Indians of the Gran Chaco by Alfred Métraux (1946). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Hathi Trust (I have not checked for other online sources).



Table of Contents

SOURCES OF CHACO FOLKLORE

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF TOBA FOLKLORE
The Culture Hero
Wonder Makers
Nature Spirits
The Trickster
Ethnography in Toba Folklore

STAR MYTHOLOGY AND COSMOGONY
Sun and Moon
The Milky Way
Constellation of the Iguana
Constellation of the Pigeons
Constellation of the Crow
Constellation of the Rabbits' Burrow and the Rabbits' Playing Ground
Constellation of the Armadillo
Constellation of the Deer
Constellation of the Old Woman
Constellation of the Algarrobo Tree
Constellation of the Stretched Skin
The Southern Cross
The Pleiades
Venus and Arcturus
Falling Stars and Meteors
The Universe
Rain
Clouds
Lightning
Hailstones
Winds

CATACLYSMS
The Flood
The Long Night
The Great Fire
The Village Destroyed by Fire
The Great Cold
E6aldo Causes the Great Darkness and the Cold
How People Who Wanted To Kill Rainbow Were Captured and Changed into Animals
Star Woman

SUPERNATURAL BEINGS
Master-of-the-Water and the Miraculous Horse
Man-of-the-Water Gives Fish
Eel Gives His People To Be Eaten by Naligaf an'ak

CULTURE HEROES
Carancho Teaches Men How To Make Fire
The Grateful Water Serpent Makes Game Animals Tame, but Carancho Makes Them Elusive Again
Carancho Causes Game To Be Elusive, but Teaches People How To Make Weapons
Carancho Kills Cannibal Woman: Origin of Tobacco
Cannibal Woman
Carancho Kills the Python Husband of a Toba Girl
Carancho and the Black Man
The Feud Between Wam, the Earthworm, and Rattlesnake: Carancho Cures the First Man Bitten by Rattlesnake
Carancho Kills a Monster Who Trapped Men
Carancho Kills the Serpent Who Devoured the Honey Gatherers
Carancho Kills the Man-Eating Bird
Carancho Kills the Man with the Sharpened Leg
Eso Kills the Man with the Sharpened Leg
Eso Kills a Man Who Shot Fishermen with a Magic Arrow
Eso Kills Oyalayate
Neda'mik the Transformer
Neda'mik Changes Men Who Refuse To Eat Carrion into Fish
Kosodot Teaches Men To Hunt
Kopilita'f a Teaches Women To Make Pottery
Asin
Asin the Culture Hero
Asin the Transformer Destroys Mankind by Cold
Child-Born-in-a-Pot

MYTHS OF ORIGIN
Origin of Women
How Fire Was Stolen from Rabbit
Fire Is Stolen from an Old Woman by the Carancho Birds
Fire Is Stolen from Wildcat
How Women Learned How to Rear Children
Origin of Weaving
Armadillo Learns from Coyuyo How To Sow Plants
Children Are Changed into Viscachas
The Origin of Yulo Birds: The Serpent Charmer

THE TRICKSTER
Fox and the Old Mortar
Fox and the Old Sandal
Fox Takes a Wife
Fox Tricks His Parents-in-law
Fox Kills Jaguar and Is Fooled by Chuna, Who Is also Tricked by Fox
Fox and the Celmo't Bird
Fox and the Frog
Fox and Lizard
Fox Sees How the Skunks Kill Wild Pigs and Tries To Imitate Them
Fox Steals Food from Child-Born-in-a-Pot 
Fox Eats a Baby and Is Smeared with Mud 
Fox Becomes a Good-looking Young Man and Is About to Marry, but Is Unmasked by Carancho 
Fox Pretends To Be a Missionary and Is Unmasked by Carancho 
Fox Challenges the Water Python and Is Changed into an Anthill 
Fox Burns a Village and His Heart Becomes a Rattle
Carancho Plays Tricks on Fox, Changing His Food into Honey
Fox, Bitten by a Spider, Is Nursed by His Sister-in-law
Fox Pretends To Be a Duck and Goes Duck Hunting
Fox Dislocates His Knee and Is Blinded 
Fox and Woodpecker's Wife 
Fox and Jaguar 

ANIMAL STORIES 
Tahak, the Chaja, Seduces Hawo', an Aquatic Bird 
Two Fishing Owls Are Deserted by Their Wives 
The Son of Chuna and the Miraculous Recognition 
The Yulo Bird, His Wife, and the Tapir 
The Big Serpents 
Why Vultures Are Bald 

LEGENDARY CHARACTERS 
The Shaman Woman 
Kanamare Gives a Drinking Bout