Show HAVE MANY PRETTY LEGENDS coupled with their belief lin ln I 1 magic indians possess interesting stories of the tha creation civilized indians are ery cry reluctant to give up their belief in magic the idea of Nor worshiping objects Is quite a settled one among the and some stories which connect corn com and flowers v with beneficent deities are ery pleasing and attract attractive ie animals too are spoken of in a ery singular and superstitious mariner and the different size of the beasts which are hunted Is accounted for in a story of the crea uon tion which has in miny iny hut but always agrees that at the time of the creation all of the beasts clamored for priority in size each was as vain and dictatorial and one after another was humbled by being made smaller than a hated enemy the idea being that everything human and otherwise that was mas born had a prior existence and came into the world with the benefit of the expert ence thus derived indians in many tribes believe in the doctrine of transmigration of souls by which Is meant that they believe souls after the debth of the bodies of animals that chev have inhabited pass into the bodies of others |