CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
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[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
CHAPTER II.
[Myths and folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa] 28
[Introduction] 28
[Myths and tales][[ii]][[iii]]28
(1) [Nenebuc, the transformer]28
(a) [The magic birth of Nenebuc and his four brothers]28
(b) [Nenebuc tempers the wind]30
(c) [Nenebuc starts travelling, anum suum castigat for deceiving him, changes the colour of the Partridge family, and originates rocktripe from his scabs for the benefit of the people]31
(d) [Nenebuc prepares a feast and gets caught between two trees, while the animals receivea distribution of fat]33
(e) [Nenebuc gets caught in the Bear’s skull]33
(f) [Nenebuc wounds the Giant Lynx, disguises himself in a Toad’s skin, and finally slaysher]34
(g) [The Giant Lynx causes the World Flood and gathers the animals on a raft; Muskrat divesfor earth, which Nenebuc transforms into a new world]36
(h) [Nenebuc sends Crow out, for disobedience changes him black and Gull partly black,then retires to the west, until he will return again]37
(2) [Nenebuc fragment]38
(3) [Nenebuc transforms the Bear]39
(4) [Wemicus]39
(5) [Ciŋgəbis]47
(6) [Beaver gives a feast]53
(7) [Tcaka·bįs]54
(8) [Aniwɔ·ye, the Giant Skunk, and the origin of Skunks]56
(9) [The man who transformed a doll into a woman and followed her into the world above]57
(10) [Ayas·e and the origin of Bats]62
(11) [Origin of the Constellation Fisher (Ursa Major)]63
(12) [The young Loon]64
(13) [The Giant Pike]65
(14) [Lynx and his two wives]67
(15) [Story of Seal Rock in Lake Timagami]68
(16) [Rabbit, Lynx, and Fisher]68
(17) [Snaring the Sun]69
(18) [Homo Excrementi]69
(19) [The origin of Snakes]71
(20) [Muskrat warns the Beaver]71
(21) [Story of a hunter]72
(22) [A Timagami story]73
(23) [Story of a fast runner]73
(24) [The hunter and the seven Deer]73
(25) [Story of a conjurer]74
(26) [Legend of Obabika lake]76
(27) [Iroquois pictographs]76
(28) [An Iroquois legend]76
[Timagami folk-lore]78
(1) [Telling stories in summer]78
(2) [Foretelling sex of child to be born]78
(3) [How to bring rain]79
(4) [Northern Lights]79
(5) [Milky Way]79
(6) [Rainbow]79
(7) [Whippoorwill’s cry]79
(8) [Rain omens]79
(9) [Killing blue bottle flies]80
(10) [Finding a live mole]80
(11) [Hiccoughing]80
(12) [Children born feet first]80
(13) [Cooking squirrels]80
(14) [How to bring on a snowstorm]80
(15) [An infant warming its hands]80
(16) [Red sunset]81
(17) [Whirling buzzer]81
(18) [Divining what game is to be killed]81
(19) [Supernatural creatures:—]
[Pa·g·αk]81
[Me·megwe·s·i]82
[Appendix: Notes on Timagami folk-lore], by Neil C. Fergusson
(1) [Whisky Jack and the markings on birch bark]83
(2) [The two girls, Hell-diver, and Loon]83
[Phonetic key] 86

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