Speck. Catawba Texts

Today's free book is Catawba Texts by Frank Speck (1934). 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. U'gni, the Comet
(a) The Bad Woman Who Stole a Boy and Became a Comet 
(b) The Eagle Kidnapper, the Pileated Woodpecker, U'gni, the Comet and the Sky Rope
(c) The Eagle Kidnapper. Variant
2. Origin of the Red Winged Blackbird and Dove 
3. How Pileated Woodpecker Got his Red Crest and Robin his Red Breast
4. How Yellow Hammer Got her White Inner Wings
5. How the Wolf was Frightened and Became Wild
6. How Opossum Lost his Bushy Tail 
7. How Tree Prog Taught Toad to Cry
8. How Chipmunk Got his Stripes
9. Rabbit Steals the Fire from the Buzzards 
10. Rabbit Steals Water from the Snapping Turtle
11. Rabbit and Snail Go for a Doctor 
12. How Terrapin Married Chief's Daughter and Made an Ice House
13. Race between Deer and Terrapin
14. Recitative from Story of Bull Frog, Terrapin and Snail go to Bring Doctor Toad 
15. Logger-head Terrapin, the Snake and the Man 
16. Opossum Tricks the Deer and the Wolves
17. The Deer and the Sleeping Hunter 
18. Deer Jumps across Catawba River 
19. Fox and Raccoon
20. Hawk and Buzzard 
21. Buzzard Steals Fish
22. The Bear and Wolf on the Mountain 
23. Tree Frog and Bull Frog Compete in Crying
24. The Boy who was Raised with the Hogs
25. A Boy Eats a Partridge Raw
26. The Child-Eating Alligator
27. The Flood 
28. A Cherokee Witch in the Form of an Owl 
29. A Cherokee Wrestles with his Wife who is a Witch
30. The Woman who Became an Owl 
31. The Women who Escaped by Transforming Themselves into Animals
32. The Mischievous Dwarfs and How to Avert Them
33. Revenge on the Shawnee Raiders
34. A Dog Tells how the Tuscarora Killed his People
35. The Catawba Kill a Chickasaw and Put him inside his Horse's Belly
36. The Woman, the Deer, and the Wolf 
37. Legend of the Ancient Indian Town and the Monster Water Serpent 
38. Monster Water Snake Crushes Children 
39. The Monster Leech
40. The Glass Snake
41. The Whip Snake
42. The Salamander Barking — a Death Omen
43. The Wren Causes Laziness
44. The Wren is Lazy
45. Bird Calls a Sign of Someone Coming 
46. The Whippoorwill's Hat is the Lady Slipper
47. The Humming Bird was Made from Man's Breath
48. Seeing the Cardinal Denotes an Unexpected Occurrence
49. The Errant Blue Jay
50. Owls Crying are Omens of Good News
51. Nature Rejoicing after a Storm
52. A Prayer Charm for Good Weather
53. The Rabbit's Foot as a Love Charm 
54. Red Blossom for Luck Charm
55. The Ground Hog and His Shadow 
56. The Omen of the Falling Star 
57. Snow Birds a Sign of Snow or Sleet 
58. Crows Cawing Means Clear Weather
59. When Red Root Blossoms Terrapin Lays its Eggs
60. Sign of Burning Soot in the Chimney 
61. Dreams of Luck 
62. How to Avert Bad Luck when Meeting a Woman While Hunting
63. Sticks Turn into Snakes to Guard a Melon Patch 
64. Thrust Iron into Fire to Drive away Witch Owl
65. Belief Concerning Crawfish in Springs
66. How Storms Arise in the Mountains
67. Ghosts
68. Prayer to Avert a Thunder Storm 
69. Prayer to Avert a Cyclonic Storm
70. Prayer for Night's Rest
71. Supplication 
72. Against Going into a Corn Crib for Three Days after a Death
73. Against Burning Sassafras Wood
74. Against Making Fire and Smoke before the Moon
75. Taboo for Widows
76. Against Cooking Deer and Turkey Meat Together
77. (a) Song Used when Washing Children in the Creek 
(b) Verse for Blind Man's March Game 
78. Ghosts the Cause of Disease
79. Sickness Caused from Eating Clay
80. Medicine Blowing by a Catawba Doctor
81. Singing when Giving Medicine 
82. Sucking as a Remedial Measure 
83. Enema to Relieve Constipation 
84. Scratching the Shoulder with Garfish Teeth for Strength
85. Rules for Gathering Herbs
86. Gathering Medicines and Praying
87. Gathering Medicines in the Full of the Moon 
88. Herbal Remedies
89. The Catawba Round Dance
90. The Catawba Horse Dance
91. The Wild Goose Dance 
92. The Bear Dance
93. On Marriage of Close Kin 
94. Burial Beneath the House, Giving the Ghost a Drink of Water, and the Watch for Three Days after Death
95. Mrs. Owl's Recollection of Going to Church 
96. Famine Time 
97. Catawba Poverty
98. How the Catawba Make Pots and Pipes 
99. How Cane Baskets are Made
100. Tanning Process 
101. Catching Fish by Use of Poison 
102. Fish Shooting with Bow and Arrow 
103. Trapping Fish with Baskets 
104. Formula to Make Fish Bite
105. Bird Brushing
106. Bush Netting 
107. Opossum Hunting 
108. Making Corn-Husk Mats
109. Recipe for Parched Corn Soup
110. Recipe for Lye Hominy 
111. Rules for Cooking Beans 
112. Rules for Cooking Crawfish 
113. Rules for Cooking Hoe Cakes 
114. Rabbit Fails to Imitate his Host, the Bear 
115. Opossum Outwits the Deer and the Wolf 
116. The Pig Outwits the Wolf 
117. How the Ghosts were Heard Dancing