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The Rabbit Dines The Bear
The Bear invited the Rabbit to dine with him. They had beans in the pot, but there was no grease for them, so the Bear cut a slit in his side and let the oil run out until they had enough to cook the dinner.
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The Owl Gets Married
A widow with one daughter was always warning the girl that she must be sure to get a good hunter for a husband when she married.
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The Origin of Medicine
At one time, animals and people lived together peaceably and talked with each other. But when mankind began to multiply rapidly, the animals were crowded into forests and deserts.
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The Origin of Game and of Corn
Long ages ago, soon after the world was made, Kenati, a Cherokee hunter and his wife Selu, lived on Looking-glass Mountain in North Carolina.
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The Nunne'hi And Other Spirit Folk
The Nûñnë'hï or immortals, the "people who live anywhere," were a race of spirit people who lived in the highlands of the old Cherokee country and had a great many townhouses, especially in the bald mountains.
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The Mother Bear's Song
A hunter in the woods one day heard singing in a cave. He came near and peeped in, and it was a mother bear singing to her cubs and telling them what to do when the hunters came after them.
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The Moon And The Thunders
The Sun was a young woman and lived in the East, while her brother, the Moon. lived in the West.
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The Legend Of Pilot Knob
In the old town of Känuga, on Pigeon river, there was a lazy fellow named Tsuwe'nähï, who lived from house to house among his relatives and never brought home any game, although he used to spend nearly all his time in the woods.
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The Katydid's Warning
Two hunters camping in the woods were preparing supper one night when a Katydid began singing near them.
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