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Hariwali and the wonderful tree | 120 |
The story of Haburi | 122 |
The adventures of Kororomanna | 126 |
The sun, the frog, and the firesticks (Warrau) | 130 |
The sun, the frog, and the firesticks (Carib) | 133 |
The sun, the frog, and the firesticks (Makusi) | 135 |
The origin of the Caribs (Warrau) | 143 |
The origin of the Caribs (Carib) | 144 |
The first fruit trees (Arawak) | 146 |
The first fruit trees (Carib) | 147 |
The man with a bad temper | 150 |
The sorcerer's daughter | 151 |
The idiot who wanted to fly | 166 |
The Maihisikiri changes the woman into a bush spirit | 172 |
The man who always hunted scrub-turkey | 173 |
The shrewd little boy and the hebu | 174 |
The spirit's brain and the goat-sucker | 175 |
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The mutilated husband is made whole | 177 |
How pain, misery, and death came into the world | 179 |
Why the drink turned sour | 180 |
Why children become sick and cry | 181 |
The woman killed by her husband's spirit | 182 |
The result of stealing other people's property | 183 |
The man changed into a beast | 184 |
The man who dined after dark | 184 |
How the haimara came to have such fine big eyes | 185 |
The wrong rattle, the bush-hog, and the baby | 186 |
The killing of the bush spirit and his wife | 188 |
The woman kills the hebu | 189 |
The bush spirit and the pregnant woman | 189 |
The contented and happy son-in-law | 190 |
The bush spirit tricked while hunting frogs | 191 |
Mawári and tobacco smoke | 192 |
The bush spirit with big ideas | 193 |
The woman who mimicked the bush spirit | 194 |
The danger of associating with spirits | 195 |
The rain-frog wife | 198 |
The honey-bee son-in-law | 199 |
The man who was changed into a powis | 201 |
The stolen child | 202 |
The tiger changed into a woman | 203 |
The woman in love with a sloth | 204 |
Why honey is so scarce now | 204 |
The man who claimed the tiger's meal | 205 |
The woman who battled with two tigers | 205 |
The man with a vulture wife | 206 |
The man with a baboon wife | 209 |
The disobedient son killed by a tiger | 210 |
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched | 211 |
The biter bit | 211 |
How alligator came to have his present shape | 212 |
How the birds obtained their distinctive markings | 212 |
The deer and the turtle | 212 |
Black tiger, wau-uta, and the broken arrow | 213 |
The story of Adaba | 215 |
Why the Indians killed Black Tiger | 215 |
Bravery rewarded with a wife | 216 |
Why Black Tiger killed the Indians | 217 |
Bá-mu [Bahmoo] and the frog | 218 |
How the man fooled the tiger | 218 |
The search for the stone ax | 220 |
The Huri Fish Nation | 220 |
How the ant-eater fooled the man | 220 |
How the Indians learned to paddle | 221 |
The big bats | 221 |
The magic boat | 222 |
The Amazons | 222 |
The country of the stone adzes | 223 |
How turtle fooled the Yawarri | 223 |
How the turtle tricked the tiger | 223 |
Tiger and ant-eater | 225 |
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How birds got their present plumage | 225 |
Hunting is no part of woman's work | 226 |
How the tapir punished the Indian | 226 |
The turtle and the aruresso bird | 226 |
Sisters bush-cow (tapir) and water-cow (manati) | 227 |
The first makuari whips | 228 |
The spirit of the rot saves the young woman | 231 |
The ite palm and the mora tree | 232 |
The piai in the water spirit's belly | 244 |
Sisters porpoise and sea-cow | 245 |
The fisherman's water-jug and potato | 245 |
How the water spirit got the man's wife from him | 247 |
How the water woman secured a landsman for husband | 248 |
The moon-sick girl and the water spirit (Carib) | 248 |
The moon-sick girl and the water spirit (Warrau) | 249 |
How sickness and death came into the world | 250 |
Amanna and her talkative husband | 251 |
The story of Okoó-hi | 255 |
How the moon got his dirty face | 256 |
The legend of Bat Mountain | 259 |
The babracote and camudi | 261 |
The legend of the Seven Stars | 262 |
The story of Nohi-abassi | 263 |
The legend of Serikoai | 265 |
The Woman of the Dawn | 266 |
The obstinate girl who refused the old man | 272 |
How the little boy escaped from the Caribs | 273 |
The night-owl and his bat brothers-in-law | 276 |
The candle-fly saved the lost hunter | 277 |
The wife teaches her husband to hunt | 279 |
The bina, the resurrected father, and the bad girl | 286 |
The baboon cough | 292 |
"Shut your eyes and wish" | 301 |
The lucky pot | 302 |
Honey-bee and the sweet drinks | 305 |
A warning to wives | 316 |
The broken egg | 323 |
The little bush child | 326 |
The hummingbird with tobacco for the first piai | 334 |
Komatari, the first medicine-man | 336 |
Saved by a dream | 342 |
The medicine-man and the carrion Crows | 343 |
The story of Koneso (Brer Rabbit) | 372 |
The woman and the serpent Oroli | 378 |
The piai and the Earthquake People | 378 |
How the lazy man was cured | 380 |
Always be content | 380 |
The old woman who died of shame | 381 |
The man who interfered with his brother's wife | 381 |
The old blind man who wanted a woman | 382 |
How we beat the Caribs | 383 |