Sacred Texts: Native American

Seneca Indian Myths: The Bird Medicine

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A SENECA named Bloody Hand had great love for the birds of the air that ate flesh and for the animals of the earth that ate flesh. When he killed a deer, he cut the flesh into pieces and called birds to eat it, or he gave it to the wolves. Sometimes he carried home a small piece but usually he gave all of the pieces to the birds and beasts: The Senecas went on the war-path and this man went with them.

Seneca Indian Myths: The Bird Medicine

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