Maine Folklife Center

Northeast Folklore Volume VI

NORTHEAST FOLKLORE
Volume VI: 1964
MALECITE AND PASSAMAQUODDY TALES

Originally published by the Northeast Folklore Society, under the auspices of the Department of English, University of Maine, Orono, Maine.

Edward D. Ives, Editor

Copyright by the Northeast Folklore Society, 1965

Second edition, 1998 Published by the Maine Folklife Center, South Stevens Hall, University of Maine.

Contents

I. Introduction

• Map

II. Stories and the Art of Story-Telling by E. Tappan Adney

III. Kluskap Tales from the Malecite

• Kluskap And His Twin Brother
• Kluskap and The Beaver
• The Tobique Rocks
• Kluskap Visits The King of England
• Kluskap And His Uncle Turtle
• The Great Wind Eagle
• Kluskap’s Two Marriages, His Wanderings, His Death

IV. Miscellaneous Malecite Tales

• The Lost Hunters I
• The Lost Hunters II
• The Man Who Married The Nun
• How The Trappers Broke the Spell
• The Man Who Sold His Daughter to the Devil
• A Task The Devil Cannot Perform
• The Devil And The Card Players
• A Witch Tale
• Jack LaPorte The Great
• A Forerunner
• The Little People

V. Passamaquoddy Tales

• A Little Boy Who Brought Good Luck
• An Indian Boy That Almost Turned Into A Bear
• The Man Whose Life Was In a Weasel
• The Story Of A Wicked Medeulin
• How Bear Got His Short Tail
• How Rabbit Came By His Split Lip
• Four Legends Of Mohawk Encounters
  1. Single Combat
  2. The Last Mohawk Scout
  3. Preparation For War
  4. The Last Battle With The Mohawks

VI. Bibliography