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Myths and Legends of Our New Possessions and Protectorate

Myths and Legends of Our New Possessions and Protectorate

by Charles M. Skinner

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Author
Skinner, Charles M. (Charles Montgomery), 1852-1907
Title
Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate
Credits
Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)
Language
English
LoC Class
GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore
Subject
Tales -- Oceania
Category
Text
eBook-No.
24732
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24732
Release Date
March 2, 2008
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Myths & Legends Of Our New Possessions & Protectorate
  2. 2.Philadelphia & London J. B. Lippincott Company 1900
  3. 3.Table of Contents
  4. 4.Illustrations
  5. 5.In the Caribbean
  6. 6.The Mysterious Islands
  7. 7.The Buccaneers
  8. 8.The Boat of Phantom Children
  9. 9.Early Porto Rico
  10. 10.The Deluge
  11. 11.How Spaniards were Found to be Mortal
  12. 12.Ponce
  13. 13.Water Caves
  14. 14.How a Dutchman Helped the Spaniards
  15. 15.The Ghost of San Geronimo
  16. 16.Police Activity in Humacao
  17. 17.The Church in Porto Rico
  18. 18.The Mermaids
  19. 19.The Aborigines
  20. 20.The Caribs
  21. 21.Secret Enemies in the Hills
  22. 22.Sacred Shrines
  23. 23.Tobacco
  24. 24.The Two Skeletons of Columbus
  25. 25.Obeah Witches
  26. 26.The Matanzas Obeah Woman
  27. 27.How Havana Got its Market
  28. 28.The Justice of Tacon
  29. 29.The Cited
  30. 30.The Virgin’s Diamond
  31. 31.A Spanish Holofernes
  32. 32.The Courteous Battle
  33. 33.Why King Congo was Late
  34. 34.The Chase of Taito Perico
  35. 35.The Voice in the Inn
  36. 36.In the Pacific
  37. 37.Finding of the Islands
  38. 38.Ancient Faiths of Hawaii
  39. 39.The Giant Gods
  40. 40.The First Fire
  41. 41.The Little People
  42. 42.The Hawaiian Iliad
  43. 43.The Hawaiian Orpheus and Eurydice
  44. 44.The Rebellion of Kamiole
  45. 45.The Japanese Sword
  46. 46.Lo-Lale’s Lament
  47. 47.The Resurrections of Kaha
  48. 48.Hawaiian Ghosts
  49. 49.The Three Wives of Laa
  50. 50.The Misdoing of Kamapua
  51. 51.Pele’s Hair
  52. 52.The Prayer to Pele
  53. 53.Lohiau and the Volcano Princess
  54. 54.A Visit of Pele
  55. 55.The Great Famine
  56. 56.Kiha’s Trumpet
  57. 57.How Moikeha Gained a Wife
  58. 58.The Sailing of Paao
  59. 59.The Wronged Wife
  60. 60.The Magic Spear
  61. 61.Hawaiian Witches
  62. 62.The Cannibals
  63. 63.The Various Graves of Kaulii
  64. 64.The Kingship of Umi
  65. 65.Keaulumoku’s Prophecy
  66. 66.The Tragedy of Spouting Cave
  67. 67.The Grave of Pupehe
  68. 68.The Lady of the Twilight
  69. 69.The Ladrones
  70. 70.Old Beliefs of the Filipinos
  71. 71.Animal Myths
  72. 72.Later Religious Myths and Miracles
  73. 73.Bankiva, the Philippine Pied Piper
  74. 74.The Crab Tried to Eat the Moon
  75. 75.The Conversion of Amambar
  76. 76.The Bedevilled Galleon
  77. 77.Two Runaways from Manila
  78. 78.The Christianizing of Wong
  79. 79.The Devil’s Bridge
  80. 80.The Great Earthquake
  81. 81.Suppressing Magic in Manila
  82. 82.Faith that Killed
  83. 83.The Widow Velarde’s Husband
  84. 84.The Grateful Bandits
  85. 85.By Charles M. Skinner
  86. 86.Colophon — Availability — Encoding — Revision History — Corrections

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