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A wide-ranging collection gathers myths and legends from the United States' Caribbean and Pacific possessions and protectorate, organizing regional folktales about enchanted floating islands, floods and deluges, mer-people, haunted churches, witches and obeah, buccaneers and ghost ships, Hawaiian gods and volcano myths, origin stories and animal fables, Filipino creation and conversion tales, and episodes of colonial contact and suppression of magic. Each section juxtaposes traditional cosmologies, heroic exploits, and moral anecdotes with accounts of spirits, omens, and rituals, preserving narrative motifs, sacred shrines, and local explanations for natural features and historical events.

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Title: Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate

Author: Charles M. Skinner

Release date: March 2, 2008 [eBook #24732]
Most recently updated: January 3, 2021

Language: English

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Myths and Legends
of
Our New Possessions

Gate of the Walled City of Manila.

Myths & Legends
Of Our
New Possessions & Protectorate

By
Charles M. Skinner

Philadelphia & London
J. B. Lippincott Company
1900

Copyright, 1899
By
J. B. Lippincott Company

Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U. S.A.

This book is
affectionately
dedicated to
Cornelia Otis
Skinner, our
new possession

Table of Contents

  1. In the Caribbean PAGE
    1. The Mysterious Islands 23
    2. The Buccaneers 33
    3. The Boat of Phantom Children 46
    4. Early Porto Rico 48
    5. The Deluge 55
    6. How Spaniards were Found to be Mortal 56
    7. Ponce 58
    8. Water Caves 61
    9. How a Dutchman Helped the Spaniards 65
    10. The Ghost of San Geronimo 67
    11. Police Activity in Humacao 71
    12. The Church in Porto Rico 74
    13. The Mermaids 78
    14. The Aborigines 83
    15. The Caribs 88
    16. Secret Enemies in the Hills 92
    17. Sacred Shrines 98
    18. Tobacco 103
    19. The Two Skeletons of Columbus 106
    20. Obeah Witches 108
    21. The Matanzas Obeah Woman 113
    22. How Havana Got its Market 121
    23. The Justice of Tacon 127
    24. The Cited 133
    25. The Virgin’s Diamond 141
    26. A Spanish Holofernes 144
    27. The Courteous Battle 150
    28. Why King Congo was Late 153
    29. The Chase of Taito Perico 156
    30. The Voice in the Inn 163
  2. In the Pacific
    1. Finding of the Islands 177
    2. Ancient Faiths of Hawaii 178
    3. The Giant Gods 188
    4. The First Fire 189
    5. The Little People 190
    6. The Hawaiian Iliad 194
    7. The Hawaiian Orpheus and Eurydice 201
    8. The Rebellion of Kamiole 206
    9. The Japanese Sword 212
    10. Lo-Lale’s Lament 217
    11. The Resurrections of Kaha 220
    12. Hawaiian Ghosts 224
    13. The Three Wives of Laa 225
    14. The Misdoing of Kamapua 226
    15. Pele’s Hair 233
    16. The Prayer to Pele 234
    17. Lohiau and the Volcano Princess 237
    18. A Visit of Pele 239
    19. The Great Famine 243
    20. Kiha’s Trumpet 248
    21. How Moikeha Gained a Wife 252
    22. The Sailing of Paao 254
    23. The Wronged Wife 256
    24. The Magic Spear 259
    25. Hawaiian Witches 262
    26. The Cannibals 267
    27. The Various Graves of Kaulii 270
    28. The Kingship of Umi 273
    29. Keaulumoku’s Prophecy 276
    30. The Tragedy of Spouting Cave 277
    31. The Grave of Pupehe 283
    32. The Lady of the Twilight 285
    33. The Ladrones 286
    34. Old Beliefs of the Filipinos 290
    35. Animal Myths 300
    36. Later Religious Myths and Miracles 304
    37. Bankiva, the Philippine Pied Piper 315
    38. The Crab Tried to Eat the Moon 317
    39. The Conversion of Amambar 319
    40. The Bedevilled Galleon 322
    41. Two Runaways from Manila 329
    42. The Christianizing of Wong 333
    43. The Devil’s Bridge 335
    44. The Great Earthquake 339
    45. Suppressing Magic in Manila 345
    46. Faith that Killed 348
    47. The Widow Velarde’s Husband 351
    48. The Grateful Bandits 352

Illustrations

  1. Gate of the Walled City of Manila Frontispiece
  2. A Cuban Residence Page 146
  3. Down the Valley came Pouring a Flood of Lava Page 232
  4. Avenue of Palms, Hawaii Page 262