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another, all were astounded as well as alarmed — they spoke various languages and could not understand one another. Some continued thenceforward to speak the original tongue, the language of the 'Choctaw, and from these sprang the Choctaw tribe. The others, who could not understand this language, began to fight among themselves. Finally, they separated," the Choctaw alone remaining. country at the present time" (Bushnell, 77/1? Chodatv of Bayou Laco7nb, Bull. Bureau of Amer. EthnoL, Wasiiington, 1909, xlviii., p. 30 ; American Anthropologist, N.S., Lancaster, Pa., xii., ■1910, 527).]
 * 'This explains why there are so many tribes throughout the

II. The Enchanted Hill.

There was once a Great Chief who built a strong house and protected it with a ditch filled with water. One day the enemy attacked him, and the Chief fled to a little hill, where he dug a cave provided with a door so strong that no one could force it. He used to come out of the cave, and lead away the Naga boys by singing and music into the cave in the hill-side. Their parents sought for them, but could not find them.

[This is the Koppenberg of German tradition. For the " Pied Piper of Hamelin," see Eolk-Lore, vol. iii., p. - 227 sqq.; F.L. Journ., vol. ii., p. 206 sqq. \ J. Grimm, Household Tales., 1884, vol. ii., p. 412. For the Indian version of the pipe which causes everyone to dance, see C. H. Tawney, Katha-Sarit-Sagara, 1880, vol. i., pp. 338, 577; vol. ii., p. 309. A negro version is given by Miss Mary A. Owen, y(/^;-;m/^wm^a;2 Folklore, vol. xvi.j p. 58. Also see Sir John Rhys' learned discussion of Lucian's account of Ogmios, the Gallic Hercules — Lectures on Celtic Heathendom, Hibbert Lectures, 1888, p. 13 sqq?\

III. A Village of Women.

The Angamis say that there is a village occupied only by •women. If a man ventures near it, they drive him ofif with their bows and arrows. These women rear each only one male child, and when others are born they kill them by plunging them into hot water. These women do no work, but live on starch and oil to make themselves strong to fight. Others say that when a man