CHAPTER IV.

ANIMAL MYTHOLOGY.

Rôles Assigned to Animals -- Auguries from their Movements -- The Ill-omened Owl -- Tutelary Animals -- Metamorphosed Men -- The Ogress-Squirrel of Vancouver Island -- Monkeys and Beavers -- Fallen Men -- The Sacred Animals -- Prominence of the Bird -- An Emblem of the Wind -- The Serpent, an Emblem of the Lightning -- Not Specially connected with Evil -- The Serpent of the Pueblos -- The Water-Snake -- Ophiolatry -- Prominence of the Dog, or the Coyote -- Generally though not always a Benevolent Power -- How the Coyote let Salmon up the Klamath -- Danse Macabre and Sad Death of the Coyote 127