Radin. Winnebago hero cycles

Today's free book is Winnebago hero cycles by Paul Radin (1948). 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

1. The Trickster Cycle 
1. Chief cohabits with woman before war party 
2. Chief wishes to go on warpath alone 
3. Chief discourages his followers from accompanying him on warpath
4. Chief, who is Trickster, kills buffalo 
5. Trickster makes his right arm fight his left 
6. Trickster borrows two children from his younger brother 
7. Children die because Trickster breaks rules 
8. Father of children pursues Trickster 
9. Trickster swims in ocean inquiring where shore is 
10. Trickster chases fish 
11. Trickster mimics man pointing 
12. Dancing ducks and talking anus 
13. Foxes eat roasted ducks 
14. Trickster burns anus and eats his own intestines 
15. Penis placed in box 
16. Penis sent across water 
17. Trickster carried by giant bird 
18. Women rescue Trickster 
19. Trickster and companions decide where to live 
20. Changed into woman, Trickster marries Chief's son 
21. Last child of union cries and is pacified 
22. Trickster visits wife and son 
23. Laxative bulb 
24. Trickster falls in his own excrement 
25. Trees mislead Trickster in finding water 
26. Plums reflected in water 
"27. Mothers seek plums while Trickster eats children 
28. Skunk persuaded to dig hole through hill 
29. Mothers lured in hole and eaten 
30. Tree teases Trickster who gets held fast in fork 
31. Wolves come and eat food under tree 
32. Flies in elk's head lure Trickster who gets caught 
33. People split elk's head off 
34. Trickster changes self into deer to take revenge on hawk 
35. Bear lured to his death wanting hawk 
36. Mink outwits Trickster and gets bear meat 
37. Trickster pursues mink in vain 
38. Chipmunk causes Trickster to lose part of his penis 
39. Discarded pieces thrown in lake and turn into plants 
40. Coyote leads Trickster to village 
41. Trickster imitates muskrat who turns ice into lily-of-the-valley roots
42. Trickster imitates snipe's method of fishing 85
43. Trickster imitates woodpecker's way of getting bear 
44. Trickster imitates pole-cat in getting deer 
45. Mink soils chief's daughter, as Trickster planned 
46. Coyote is duped into being tied to horse's tail 
47. Trickster removes obstacles on the Mississippi 
48. Waterfall is forced to fall on land 
49. Trickster eats final meal on earth and retires to heaven 

2. The Hare Cycle 
1. Hare born of virgin mother 
2. Grandmother extracts arrow shot in Hare 
3. Arrow will not shoot without bow, which grandmother makes for Hare
4. How Hare obtains eagle tail-feathers 
5. Hare kills his grandfather to obtain tobacco 
6. Hare kills his grandfather, Flint, to obtain arrow-points 
7. Hare kills Sharp-elbow 
8. Hare kills his grandfather, Bear 
9. Grandmother and Hare bring home the bear meat in separate pieces 
10. Hare slits his nose while visiting 
11. Hare kills people with bodiless heads 
12. Hare kills the tall being 
13. Hare traps the sun 
14. Hare is swallowed by a water-monster whom he kills 
15. Hare kills being who attempts to smoke him out of a hole 
16. Hare plays hoax on his grandmother to eat all the food alone 
17. Frog threatens Hare who kills him 
18. Hare goes after stolen scalp 
19. Hare dines with beavers 
20. Hare recovers scalp for owner 
21. Hare spoils reward by disobedience 
22. Hare recruits food animals for humans 
23. Grandmother tells Hare of the necessity for death 
24. Hare creates the Medicine Rite 

3. The Red Horn Cycle 
1. Kunu wins chief's daughter in race; Red Horn demonstrates supernatural power 
2. Kunu and Red Horn go on warpaths 
3. Red Horn accepts attention of a young girl and marries her; Kunu is made head-chief of the people 
4. Red Horn doctors, and is compensated by being given women whom he turns over to his older brothers 
5. Attacking giants are met in contests; ball-stick game goes against giants who are killed 
6. Giants come again to play Who can shoot the farthest 
7. Giants come to play dice, and are defeated again 
8. Giants come to play Who can stay under the water longest 
9. Giants out-wrestle people and kill them 
10. Red Horn's wives give birth to children who are spared by giants 
11. Red Horn's sons kill giants, revive all killed by them 
12. Adventures of the sons of Red Horn 
13. Red Horn's son goes to father's spurned sweetheart 
14. Wolf and others change from human beings to animals 

4. The Twin Cycle 
1. Old man kills pregnant daughter-in-law and extracts twin boys, one of whom is raised in the lodge by his father 
2. The twin placed in the hollow of a stump joins his brother and father
3. Twins set out for forbidden hill 
4. Twins kill and eat snakes which they call fish 
5. Twins kill and eat leeches which they call turtles 
6. Twins kill and eat thunderbirds which they call pigeons 
7. Father fears twin sons and attempts in vain to run away from them
8. Twins send father off to neighboring village 
9. Twins kill and eat ogre 
10. Twins visit Herecgunina and alter longevity book 
11. Twins visit Earthmaker 
12. Herecgunina attempts to kill Twins in vapor-bath 
13. Twins visit father and kill buffalo for entire village 
14. Twins help Red Horn win war 
15. Twins kill waterspirit in form of beaver 
16. Twins forced to retire to hill in the east