Part 1 comprises the matter recorded in the field by Jeremiah
Curtin in 1883, 1886, and 1887 on the Cattaraugus reservation, near
Versailles, New York, including tales, legends and myths. This work
of Mr. Curtin represents in part the results of the first serious
attempt to record with satisfactory fullness the folklore of the
Seneca. The material consists largely of narratives or tales of
fiction-naive productions of the story-teller's art which can lay
no claim to be called myths, although undoubtedly they contain many
things that characterize myths-narratives of the power and deeds of
one or more of the personified active forces or powers immanent in
and expressed by phenomena or processes of nature in human guise or
in that of birds or beasts. Part 2 also consists of Seneca legends
and myths, which are translations made expressly for this work from
native texts recorded by J. N. B. Hewitt in the autumn of 1896.
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