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feather in the back of every man's head and told him to wear it home. It would be good luck. It would be like the hand of Tobats over them. "Tell your people that you talked with Shinob and that you saw Tobats' hand. Tell them to wear one eagle feather bent forward, like the hand of Tobats, in the back of their hair.”’”

 

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The following legend comes from page 291 of Bertha Palmer's book "STORIES FROM THE CLASSIC LITERATURE OF MANY NATIONS":

 

"...At a certain time the Earth opened up in the west, where its mouth is. The Earth opened, and the Cussitaws came out of its mouth, and settled nearby..." (Kasi'hta tribe legend, a branch of the Creek Indian Nation)

   

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Page 71 of Jeremiah Curtin's book, "CREATION MYTHS OF PRIMITIVE AMERICA", contains the following story (Note: The Wintus are a nation or stock of ‘Indians’ who, before the coming of the white men, owned and occupied all that part of California situated on the right bank of the Sacramento river, from its source near the foot of Mount Shasta to its mouth at the northern shore of San Francisco Bay):

     "...At a place east of Pas Puisono, a woman came up out of the earth. Her name was Hluyuk Tikimit. She had another name, Pom Norwanen Pitchen. We call her also Norwan.

    “She appeared before the present Wintu people came out of the ground, at Tsarau Heril.

     "’I am in the world now," said Norwan to herself. I will look around everywhere to see from what places people are coming.’