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Beliefs concerning Thunder and Lightning
The following data is extracted from The Choctaw of Bayou Lacomb, St. Tammay Parish, Louisiana.
Thunder and lightning are to the Choctaw two great birds Thunder (Heloha), the female; Lightning (Mcda’tha),the male. When they hear a great noise in the clouds, Heloha is laying an egg, “just like a bird,” in the cloud, which is her nest. When a tree is shattered the result is said to have been caused by Mala’tha, the male, he being the stronger; but when a tree is only slightly damaged, the efleet is attributed to Heloha, the weaker.
Great trouble or even war was supposed to follow the sight of a comet.
Source: The Choctaw of Bayou Lacomb, St. Tammay Parish, Louisiana
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