Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Godfrey Leland
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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION GLOOSKAP, THE DIVINITY. 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 the 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. 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; 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 |
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