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
(7) Ciŋgəbis 17
(8) Remarks about Wiske·djak 20
Timiskaming Algonquin text 20
Free translation 21
(9) Further comment on Wiske·djak 21
Timiskaming folk-lore 22
(1) Wi′ndigo 22
(2) Pa·′guk‵ 22
(3) Constellation Ursa Major 22
(4) Northern Lights 23
(5) Rainbow 23
(6) Milky Way 23
(7) White animals 24
(8) Dwarfed animals 24
(9) Partridge breast-bone as omen 24
(10) Wings of birds and skulls as amulets 24
(11) Blue bottle flies 25
(12) Rabbits’ hair thrown into fire 25
(13) Fish bone 25
(14) Left-handed people 25
(15) Bear feast 25
(16) Legend of Iroquois Falls 26