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Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore by J. Walter Fewkes
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regarded as a terrible one.

_Pedogiic._ Thunder.

_Pesok que tuk._ Lightning.

_Ooargamess._ Small beings who live about rocks and chatter
in unknown tongue. Have been seen in late times.

_Lumpagonosis._ Water beings.

_Kelphit._ A shapeless (medicine) being who is turned over
twice each year. Under him are found flowers.

_Pogumpt._ Black Cat, Fisher.

_k'Chebollock._ The Spirit of the Air. This being is said to
be without body, but to have a heart, wings, head, and
legs.

_Cadoux._ Spirit of Night. Said to have been seen lately. An
evil spirit which tears bark from the wigwam, and in many
ways frightens the Indians.

_Pook-jin-squess._ The Jug. Called also the toad woman. In
some Indian stories spoken of as governor.

_Noosagess._ A being associated with the wind.

_Squaw-oc-t'moos._ Swamp woman.
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