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Excerpt from Huron and Wyandot Mythology: With an Appendix Containing Earlier Published Records The nature of the material itself seems to call for the fol lowing Classification, which has been adhered to in the present memoir: (i) myths or traditional narratives, in the truth of which the Hurons and Wyandots used to believe; (ii) tales, acknowledged by them to be mere fiction; and (iii) traditions or narratives bearing on the history of the tribe. In the mythology proper are included: (a) traditional accounts and description of the origin of the world, the cosmo gonic deities, and beings; (b) etiological myths on a number of natural phenomena 2 and (c) various social events of the past.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.