New York Folklore Journal Vol. 19, Nos. 3-4

"Seneca stories, like the mist, spin out from this place. When I first began to collect contemporary stories among the Seneca, I heard the names of Ga-hai-ne and Ga-hai hill again and again. I was told that strange floating lights, which appear frequently in Seneca story are often seen at Ga-hai-ne. The ghost of the shape-shifting giant, John Lampson, has been known to walk there, following an old path down to the river where his cabin once stood. Some time ago, a flagman on the Erie Railroad disappeared at Ga-hai-ne, and was never seen again. In the mind of the modern Seneca, Ga-hai-ne is the main point of contact between this world and the spirit world."(From "A Place Called Gahaine: The Haunted Hill in Contemporary Seneca Story" by Stephen C. Wehmeyer)

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NEW YORK FOLKLORE
Vol. XIX, Nos. 3-4, 1993
CONTENTS

Editors’ Foreword		v
Articles Hooked on Carving: Ice Fishing Decoy Carving in Michigan	C. Kurt Dewhurst	1
Spear Fishing and Spear Fishing Decoy Collecting: Connected Yet Separate Existential Worlds	Philip Nusbaum	19
Alex Maulson, Winter Spearer	James P. Leary	43
Regional Sports: "Playing" with Politics in the Adirondacks	Felicia Faye McMahon	59
A Place Called Gahaine: The Haunted Hill in Contemporary Seneca Story	Stephen C. Wehmeyer	75
Reconsidering Rollerskating: The Body Moving between Play and Performance	Justine McGovern	87
Folklore Notes Communication Regarding the Identity of the Leatherman	A. W. Sadler	99
Was Susan Fenimore Cooper a Revenant?	Robert A. Emery	103
Reviews Baron and Spitzer, eds., Public Folklore	Nancy Groce	107
Chairetakis and Sciorra, Malidittu la Lingua/Damned Language: Vincenzo Ancona, Poetry and Miniatures	Steve Siporin	109
Cohen, The Dutch-American Farm	Simon J. Bronner	111
Harvey, Contemporary Irish Traditional Narrative: The English Language Tradition and Sexton, Mayan Folktales: Folklore from Lake Atitlán, Guatemala	Rachelle H. Saltzman	114
Johnstone, Stories, Community, and Place: Narratives from Middle America	Philip Nusbaum	120
Lawson, The Rules of Speed Chess	Nancy Groce	121
Mieder, Kingsbury, Harder, eds., A Dictionary of American Proverbs	W. F. H. Nicolaisen	122
Stahl, Literary Folkloristics and the Personal Narrative	Stephen W. Keller	125
Schoolcraft, Algic Researches: Indian Tales and Legends, Volumes I & II	Harold Kugelmass	127
Tomlan, Tinged with Gold: Hop Culture in the United States	Yvonne R. Lockwood	129
Whittier, Legends of New England	Peter Voorheis	131

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