Wissler. Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians

Today's free book is Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians by Clark Wissler and D. C. Duvall (1908). 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

I. Tales of the Old Man
The Making of the Earth
Languages confused on a Mount
Order of Life and Death
Why People die Forever
The First Marriage
Old Man leads a Migration
Old Man and the Great Spirit
Old Man gambles
Old Man and the Rolling Stone
Old Man roasts Squirrels in Hot Ashes
Old Man makes a Drive, and loses Meat in a Race
Old Man sees Berries in the Water
Old Man loses his Eyes
Old Man and the Fire-Leggings
Old Man frightens a Bear
Old Man gets fast in an Elk-Skull, and loses his Hair
Old Man cooks Two Babies
Old Man's Escape
Old Man deceived by Two Women
Old Man sees Girls picking Strawberries
Old Man penem trans flumen mittit
Old Man makes Buffalo laugh
Adventures of Old ]\Ian

II. Star Myths
The Twin-Brothers, or Stars
Blood-Clot, or Smoking-Star
The Fixed-Star
Scar-Face
(a) Version by a Piegan Man
(b) Version by a Piegan Woman
Cuts-Wood
The Seven Stars
The Bunched Stars 
The Moon-Woman

III. Ritualistic Origins
The Beaver-Medicine .
(a) Northern Blackfoot Version
(b) Blood Version
(c) North Piegan Version
(d) Piegan Version
Otter-Woman
Tobacco-Seeds and Beaver-Medicine
Crow Indian Water-Medicine
Scabby-Round-Robe
The Elk- Woman
(a) Blood Version
(b) Piegan Version
The Buffalo-Rock
(a) Piegan Version
(b) Northern Blackfoot Version
Origin of the Medicine-Pipe
The Worm-Pipe
A Pipe from the Seven Stars
The Black-Covered Pipe
The Otter-Lodge
The Bear-Lodge
The Horse-Lodge
Black and Yellow Buffalo-Painted Lodges
The Crow-Painted Lodge
 The Bear-Knife
The Smoking-Otter
The Medicine-Shields
Never-Sits-Down's Shield
The Eagle-Head Charm
The Pigeons
The Mosquitoes
The Braves
Dog-Chief
Has-Scars-All-Over
Scabby-Bull
The Horns and the Matoki
(a) Blood Version
(6) North Piegan Version
The Kit-Fox
Tile Catchers
The Buffalo's Adopted Child

IV. Cultural and Other Origins
The Whirhvind-Boy
The Bladder Story
The Water-Bull 
Red-Head
The Meeting in the Cave
Why Dogs do not Talk
Why Women are able to stick the Pole of the Lodge after Dark
Contest between the Thunder-Bird and the Raven
The Raven Rescues People
Why Grasshoppers Spit
How Medicine-Hat got its Name

V. Miscellaneous Tales
The Lost Children
The Woman who got Meat from the Cliff
Bear-Moccasin, the Great Medicine-Man
The Split Feather
The Treacherous Wives
The Woman who Married a Snake
The Woman who Married Filth
The Woman who Married a Horse
The Woman with a Sharpened Leg
The Woman without a Body
The Man Cut in two below the Waist
The Ghost- Woman
Fed by a Ghost
Fed by a Coyote
Riding the Buffalo
The Kutenai Black-Tail Deer-Dance
The Horned- Toad and the Frog
Turtle goes to War
The Warrior's Dilemma
A Warrior's Duty and his Love
The Wolverene Woman
Seven-Heads
The Sand Hills

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