Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore

Wawenock Myth Texts from Maine Forty-third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1925-26, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1928, pages 165-198

Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950· 4 chapters· 15,999 words

The Turtle insults the chief of the Birds; Gluskα̨be´ helps him to escape; mountains are created; and again Turtle escapes by getting his captors to throw him into the water, but is finally killed 181

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we´dji·ni·mi`p`hamα`k` ni·´l·αnasi´n aida´ nəbə´s·i·zak ni·wedji·´ they grabbed him to kill him. Well! in a little lake that is why

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[37] Maine Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. III (1853), p. 412. Possibly the French rendering of Kwun·a´wαs, “Long Hair,” a personal name in Penobscot mythology (F. G. Speck, Penobscot Tr...

1. Part 1

The Turtle insults the chief of the Birds; Gluskα̨be´ helps him to escape; mountains are created; and again Turtle escapes by getting his captors to throw him into the water, bu...

4. Part 4

ni·gi·zi·ni·łα̨ni·´ kipke´`tαhα`nt ni·yu´ bə´s·i·hada`s·i·łαn After he had killed he cut off some meat and then he skinned them