The Algonquin Legends of New England or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Tribes

Description

This book contains a collection of the myths, legends, and folk lore of the principal Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, Indians. That is of the Passamaquoddies and Penobscots of Maine, and of the Micmacs of New Brunswick. The greater part of the material was collected by the author himself, some were gathered directly from Indian narrators and from Leland’s few friends.

The book includes Stories of Glooskap, the divinity; Lox, the mischief-maker; At-O-Sis, the serpent; Master Rabbit; The Weewillmekq; The Chenoo; Thunder Stories; The Story of a Partridge and his Wonderful Wigwam.

Leland occasionally commented on the two or three subjects that he had. He further states that the proof of the undeniable connection or link between the myths and legends of the Northeastern Indians and of the Eskimos could hardly be left behind, neither at the equivalent time the specifications of the latter and the Shaman religion with those of the Finns, Laplanders, and Samoyedes. Leland depicts that he has gathered materials which is existent and not lacking in value to those people who are interested in the study of the dealings of the aborigines of America with the Mongoloid races of the Old World. The subject of the relations of the Wabanaki and the Eskimo has been overlooked and not much studied.

A very much more perilous risk has been pointing out similarities between the myths or tales of the Algonquins and those of the Norsemen, as set off in the Eddas, the Sagas, and the famous stories of Scandinavia.

Despite anything to the contrary, we once remembered that the Eskimo purview as far south as Massachusetts, that they have not gone far to Greenland until the 14th-century, that they had for three centuries personal relations with the Scandinavians.
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