The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398
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Mooney, James
Introduction 307
How the formulas were obtained. 310
The A‘yûninĭ (Swimmer) manuscript 310
The Gatigwanastĭ (Belt) manuscript 312
The Gahunĭ manuscript 313
The Inâlĭ (Black Fox) manuscript 314
Other manuscripts 316
The Kanâhe´ta Ani-Tsa´lagĭ Etĭ or Ancient Cherokee Formulas 317
Character of the formulas—the Cherokee religion 318
Myth of the origin of disease and medicine 319
Theory of disease—animals, ghosts, witches 322
Selected list of plants used 324
Medical practice—theory of resemblances—fasting—tabu—seclusion—women 328
Illustration of the gaktûnta or tabu 331
Neglect of sanitary regulations 332
The sweat bath—bleeding—rubbing—bathing 338
Opposition of shamans to white physicians 336
Medicine dances 337
Description of symptoms 337
The ugista´‘tĭ or pay of the shaman 337
Ceremonies for gathering plants and preparing medicine 339
The Cherokee gods and their abiding places 340
Color symbolism 342
Importance attached to names 343
Language of the formulas 343
Specimen formulas 344
Medicine 345
To treat the crippler (rheumatism)—from Gahuni 345
Second formula for the crippler—from Gahuni 349
Song and prescription for snake bites—from Gahuni 351
When something is causing something to eat them—Gahuni 353
Second formula for the same disease—A‘wanita 355
For moving pains in the teeth (neuralgia?)—Gatigwanasti 356
Song and prayer for the great chill—A‘yûnini 359
To make children jump down (child birth)—A‘yûnini 363
Second formula for child birth—Takwatihi 364
Song and prayer for the black yellowness (biliousness)—A‘yûnini 365
To treat for ordeal diseases (witchcraft)—A‘yûnini 366
Hunting 369
Concerning hunting—A‘yûnini 369