Myths and legends of the New York state Iroquois . his foam is scooped up by the medicine man who quicklytransfers it to his mystery pouch. This mystic medicine is the magical gift of Hi-no ands reputed a wonderful cure for extreme cases or as a final resort. Lightning struck trees. When his gleaming missile has crashed into a tree, no man mustwith hisnaked skin touch the punished wood, for some of the ragged fire that has splinteredit may yet linger to blister the offender and cause an irritating rash to break out over hisbody. Nor must the wood be burned for the smoke will anger Hi-no who in
Myths and legends of the New York state Iroquois . his foam is scooped up by the medicine man who quicklytransfers it to his mystery pouch. This mystic medicine is the magical gift of Hi-no ands reputed a wonderful cure for extreme cases or as a final resort. Lightning struck trees. When his gleaming missile has crashed into a tree, no man mustwith hisnaked skin touch the punished wood, for some of the ragged fire that has splinteredit may yet linger to blister the offender and cause an irritating rash to break out over hisbody. Nor must the wood be burned for the smoke will anger Hi-no who in his fury willburst a black cloud over the offensive flames to destroy the unsavory incense. Even thenhis anger may not subside but he may send great rains over the land to remind men that hiswishes must not be lightly held. IROQUOIS MYTHS AND LEGENDS 41 One of his assistants took there a beautiful Indian girl as his wifewho, being transformed into a water spirit, Hved in the spray ofthe lunar rainbow, which is often seen at Niagara. But when the. Hi no, the Thunder Spirit From o drawing by Jesse Cornplanter, a Seneca boy artist Storm Spirits were warring in the heavens, and He-no was sent toquell them, the water spirit, following her companion and He-no,became a dweller of the clouds. 42 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM ff During the terrestrial life of He-no/ the Iroquois. people wereterrified by the annual visits of a hideous serpent that lived in acave near the Niagara cataract. Toward the spring, when the rivers were loosing themselvesand pouring their torrents into Lake Erie, this creature wouldemerge from its cave, and entering the burial places of the Iro-quois, feed on the dead; and in the sinuous paths of its return,would poison the land with a pestilence to which large numbers ofthe people fell victims. He-no pursued it, and overtaking it as itwound through the De-gi-ya-goh (Buffalo creek) threw a terrificthunderbolt upon it, and in its writhings to escape, the monsterpushed th
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