[103-2] Mrs. Eastman, _Legends of the Sioux_, p. 191: New York, 1849. This is a trustworthy and meritorious book, which can be said of very few collections of Indian traditions. They were collected during a residence of seven years in our northwestern territories, and are usually verbally faithful to the native narrations. [104-1] Müller, _Amer. Urreligionen_, p. 222, after De la Borde. [105-1] _Acc. of the Inds. of California_, ch. ix. Eng. trans. by Robinson: New York, 1847. The Acagchemem were a branch of the Netela tribe, who dwelt near the mission San Juan Capistrano (see Buschmann, _Spuren der Aztek. Sprache_, etc., p. 548). [106-1] Called in the Aztec tongue _Tecolotl_, night owl; literally, the stone scorpion. The transfer was mythological. The Christians prefixed to this word _tlaca_, man, and thus formed a name for Satan, which Prescott and others have translated "rational owl." No such deity existed in ancient Anahuac (see Buschmann, _Die Voelker und Sprachen Neu Mexico's_, p. 262). [106-2] Schoolcraft, _Ind. Tribes_, v. p. 420. [106-3] William Bartram, Travels, p. 504. Columbus found the natives of the Antilles wearing tunics with figures of these birds embroidered upon them. Prescott, _Conq. of Mexico_, i. p. 58, note. [107-1] _Rel. de la Nouv. France_, An 1636, ch. ix. Catlin, _Letters and notes_, Lett. 22. [108-1] _Rel. de la Nouv. France_, An 1648, p. 75; Cusic, _Trad. Hist. of the Six Nations_, pt. iii. The latter is the work of a native Tuscarora chief. It is republished in Schoolcraft's Indian Tribes, but is of little value. [109-1] For example, in Brazil, Müller, _Amer. Urrelig._, p. 277; in Yucatan, Cogolludo, _Hist. de Yucathan_, lib. iv. cap. 4; among the western Algonkins, _Hennepin, Decouverte dans l'Amer. Septen_. chap. 33. Dr. Hammond has expressed the opinion that the North American Indians enjoy the same immunity from the virus of the rattlesnake, that certain African tribes do from some vegetable poisons (_Hygiene_, p. 73). But his observation must be at fault, for many travellers mention the dread these serpents inspired, and the frequency of death from their bites, e. g. _Rel. Nouv. France_. 1667, p. 22. [109-2] _Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner_, p. 356. [110-1] See Gallatin's vocabularies in the second volume of the _Trans. Am. Antiq. Soc._ under the word _Snake_. In Arabic _dzann_ is serpent; _dzanan_ a spirit, a soul, or the heart. So in Hebrew _nachas_, serpent, has many derivatives signifying to hold intercourse with demons, to conjure, a magician, etc. See Noldeke in the _Zeitschrift für Voelkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft_, i. p. 413. [111-1] Alexander Henry, _Travels_, p. 117. [111-2] _Bost. Med. and Surg. Journal_, vol. 76, p. 21. [113-1] Schwarz, _Der Ursprung der Mythologie dargelegt an Griechischer und Deutscher Sage_: Berlin, 1860, _passim_. [113-2] _Rel. de la Nouv. France_: An 1637, p. 53.