The Algonquin Legends of New England: Page Index

Title Page

Preface

Authorities

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Of Glooskap's Birth, and of his Brother Malsum the Wolf

How Glooskap made the Elves and Fairies, and then Man of an Ash Tree, and last of all, Beasts, and of his Coming at the Last Day

Of the Great Deeds which Glooskap did for Men; how he named the Animals, and who they were that formed his Family.

How Win-pe the Sorcerer, having stolen Glooskap's Family, was by him pursued, and how Glooskap for a Merry Jest cheated the Whale. Of the Song of the Clams, and how the Whale smoked a Pipe

Of the Dreadful Deeds of the Evil Pitcher, who was both Man and Woman, and how she fell in love with Glooskap, and, being scorned, became his Enemy. Of the Toads and Porcupines, and the Awful Battle of the Giants

How the Story of Glooskap and Pook-jin-skwess, the Evil Pitcher, is told by the Passamaquoddy Indians

How Glooskap became friendly to the Loons, and made them his Messengers

How Glooskap made his Uncle Mikchich the Turtle into a Great Man, and got him a Wife. Of Turtles' Eggs, and how Glooskap vanquished a Sorcerer by smoking Tobacco.

How Glooskap sailed through the great Cavern of Darkness

Of the Great Works which Glooskap made in the Land

The Story of Glooskap as told in a few Words by a Woman of the Penobscots

How Glooskap, leaving the World, all the Animals mourned for him, and how, ere he departed, he gave Gifts to Men

How Glooskap had a great Frolic with Kitpooseagunow, a Mighty Giant who caught a Whale

How Glooskap made a Magician of a Young Man, who aided another to win a Wife and do Wonderful Deeds

How a Certain Wicked Witch sought to cajole the Great and Good Glooskap, and of her Punishment

Of other Men who went to Glooskap for Gifts

Of Glooskap and the Three Other Seekers

Of Glooskap and the Sinful Serpent

The Tale of Glooskap as told by another Indian. Showing how the Toad and Porcupine lost their Noses

How Glooskap changed Certain Saucy Indians into Rattlesnakes

How Glooskap bound Wuchowsen, the Great Wind-Bird, and made all the Waters in all the World Stagnant

How Glooskap conquered the Great Bull-Frog, and in what Manner all the Pollywogs, Crabs, Leeches, and other Water Creatures were created

How the Lord of Men and Beasts strove with the Mighty Wasis, and was shamefully defeated

How the great Glooskap fought the Giant Sorcerers at Saco, and turned them into Fish

How Glooskap went to England and France, and was the first to make America known to the Europeans.

How Glooskap is making Arrows, and preparing for a Great Battle. The Twilight of the Indian Gods.

How Glooskap found the Summer

The Legend of Glooskap

Of the Surprising and Singular Adventures of two Water Fairies who were also Weasels, and how they each became the Bride of a Star. Including the Mysterious and Wonderful Works of Lox, the Great Indian Devil, who rose from the Dead

Of the Wolverine and the Wolves, or how Master Lox Froze to Death

How Master Lox played a Trick on Mrs. Bear, who lost her eyesight and had her eyes opened

How Lox came to Grief by trying to catch a Salmon

How Master Lox as a Raccoon killed the Pear and the Black Cats, and performed other Notable Feats of Skill, all to his Great Discredit

How Lox deceived the Ducks, cheated the Chief, and beguiled the Bear

The Mischief Maker. A Tradition of the Origin of the Mythology of the Senecas. A Lox Legend

How Lox told a Lie

I. How Master Rabbit sought to rival Keeoony, the Otter

II. How Mahtigwess, the Rabbit dined with the Woodpecker Girls, and was again humbled by trying to rival them

III. Of the Adventure with Mooin, the Bear; it being the Third and Last Time that Master Rabbit made a Fool of himself

IV. Relating how the Rabbit became Wise by being Original, and of the Terrible Tricks which he by Magic played Loup-Cervier, the Wicked Wild Cat

V. How Master Rabbit went to a Wedding and won the Bride

VI. How Master Rabbit gave himself Airs

VII. The Young Man who was Saved by a Rabbit and a Fox

I. The Chenoo, or the, Story of a Cannibal with an Icy Heart

The Story of the Great Chenoo, as told by the Passamaquoddies

The Girl-Chenoo

Of the Girl who married Mount Katahdin, and how all the Indians brought about their own Rain

How a Hunter visited the Thunder Spirits who dwell in Mount Katahdin

The Thunder and Lightning Men

Of the Woman who married the Thunder, and of their Boy

How Two Girls were changed to Water-Snakes, and of Two Others that became Mermaids

Ne Hwas, the Mermaid

Of the Woman who loved a Serpent who lived in a Lake

The Mother of Serpents

Origin of the Black Snakes

The Adventures of the Great Hero Pulowech, or the Partridge

The Story of a Partridge and his Wonderful Wigwam

How the Partridge built Good Canoes for all the Birds, and a Bad One for Himself

The Mournful Mystery of the Partridge-Witch; setting forth how a Young Man died from Love

How one of the Partridge's Wives became a Sheldrake-Duck, and why her Feet and Feathers are Red

The Invisible One

Story of the Three Strong Men

I. How a Woman Lost a Gun for Fear of the Weewillmekq'

II. Muggahmaht'adem, the Dance of Old Age, or the Magic of the Weewillmekq'

III. Another Version of the Dance of Old Age?

M'téoulin, or Indian Magic

Tumilkoontaoo, or the Broken Wing

Fish-Hawk and Scapegrace

The Giant Magicians