Charles Godfrey Leland

Algonquin Legends of New England Charles Godfrey Leland

Book Excerptp> How one of the Partridge's Wives became a Sheldrake Duck, and why her Feet and Feathers are redTHE INVISIBLE ONESTORY OF THE THREE STRONG MENTHE WEEWILLMEKQ'How a Woman lost a Gun for Fear of the Weewillmekq'Muggahmaht'adem, the Dance of Old Age, or the Magic of the Weewillmekq'Another Version of the Dance of Old AgeTALES OF MAGIC. M'teoulin, or Indian MagicStory of the Beaver TrapperHow a Youth became a MagicianOf Old Joe, the M'teoulinOf Governor FrancisHow a Chiefs Son taught his Friend SorceryTumilkoontaoo, or the Broken WingFish-Hawk and ScapegraceThe Giant MagiciansLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. MIK UM WESS, THE INDIAN PUCK, OR ROBIN GOOD-FELLOWGLOOSKAP KILLING HIS BROTHER, THE WOLFGLOOSKAP LOOKING AT THE WHALE SMOKING HIS PIPEGLOOSKAP SETTING HIS DOGS ON THE WITCHESTHE MUD-TURTLE JUMPING OVER THE WIGWAM OF HIS FATHER-IN-LAWG