Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903 / 2008-05-14 00:00:00

EBOOK ALGONQUIN LEGENDS ***


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THE ALGONQUIN LEGENDS OF NEW ENGLAND
OR
_Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot
Tribes_
BY CHARLES G. LELAND


[Frontispiece Illustration: MIK UM WESS THE INDIAN PUCK, OR ROBIN
GOOD-FELLOW.
From a scraping on birch bark by Tomak Josephs, Indian Governor at
Peter Dona's Point, Maine. The Mik um wees always wears a red cap like
the Norse Goblin.]

PREFACE.
When I began, in the summer of 1882, to collect among the Passamaquoddy
Indians at Campobello, New Brunswick, their traditions and folk-lore, I
expected to find very little indeed. These Indians, few in number,
surrounded by white people, and thoroughly converted to Roman
Catholicism, promised but scanty remains of heathenism. What was my
amazement, however, at discovering, day by day, that there existed
among them, entirely by oral tradition, a far grander mythology than
that which has been made known to us by either the Chippewa or Iroquois
Hiawatha Legends, and that this was illustrated by an incredible number
of tales. I soon ascertained that these were very ancient.
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