Note 445 — SENECA FICTION, LEGENDS, AND MYTHS (continued 5)

Then there came a time many days after this that the Corn Maiden saw her brother arrive there. He was a human being, tall beyond measure, and in other respects of corresponding size. He said to her: “Do you now come forth (out of the lodge).” She obeyed him by leaving her lodge, whereupon he took her up in his arms. He saw there a stone ax and an arrowhead of flint. After carefully examining these he asked: “Have these things, simple as they are, the power to kill a person?” She made no reply to this question, and the giant departed, carrying away captive his youngest sister. On the way she began to sing: “Oh, elder brother! have you not been in the habit of saying that there is nothing that roams about which has the power to kill persons? How do you explain this?” Now the name of the person who stole this woman is Doōdĕⁿnĕñyāʹhoⁿʼ445 (Ga-mĕñ­dji-dāʻ-kăʻ is the Tutelo name), (The refrain of the song she sang was the Tutelo words, Daʻhĕñgeʻ, daʻhĕñgeʻ, wāʻhoyăʼ ĕñ gi lo yot.)