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Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate

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

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