This Onondaga myth tells of seven children who dismay their elders by dancing and frolicking all night on the shore of a lake where a group is camped for the winter. In spite of warnings from a mysterious wise man, the children continue their capers. Then, on one special night, the children ascen into the sky and become seven stars. In this form, they dance forever.
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