Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa

CANADA DEPARTMENT OF MINES Hon. Louis Coderre, Minister; R. W. Brock, Deputy Minister. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MEMOIR 71 No. 9, Anthropological Series Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa BY F. G. Speck OTTAWA Government Printing Bureau 1915 CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE Myths and folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin 1 Introduction 1 Wiske·djak cycle 2 (1) Wiske·djak pursues the Beaver 2 (2) Wiske·djak kills the Bear and gets his head fastened in the skull 4 (3) Wiske·djak invites the Ducks to a dance 8 (4) Wiske·djak anum suum urit and originates rock-weed and red willow from the scabs 10 (5) Wiske·djak disguises himself as a Lynx 15 (6) Wiske·djak’s love affair 16 (…

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