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, pag

WAWENOCK MYTH TEXTS FROM MAINE BY FRANK G. SPECK The texts are published with the permission of the Division of Anthropology, National Museum of Canada CONTENTS Page Introduction 169 Phonetic note 178 Gluskα̨be´ the Transformer 180 Gluskα̨be´ creates himself and competes with the Creator 180 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 Gluskα̨be´ becomes angry with the birch tree and marks it for life 185 Gluskα̨be´ the Transformer (free translation) 186 How a hunter encountered Bmule´, visited his country and obtained a boon 190 How a hu…

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