Mechling. Malecite Tales

Today's free book is Malecite Tales by W. H. Mechling (1914). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image. You can read more about the Maliseet at Wikipedia.

The book is available at Hathi Trust (I have not checked for other online sources).


Table of Contents

Gluskap myths
(1). Gluskap
(2). Gluskap and the Turtle 
(3). Gluskap's tricks 
(4). Gluskap's origin 
(5). Wind Bird 
(6). Sakilexis aids the people 
(7). Some adventures of Gluskap 

Poktcinskwes stories 
(8). The Bear Lover, Magic Pipe, Storage of Water, and other incidents 
(9). Poktcinskwes 1 
(10). Poktcinskwes II 
(11). Fisher and Poktcinskwes First version 
(12). Fisher and Poktcinskwes Second version 
(13). Fisher 

Mekweisit stories 
(14). Mekweisit and his brother 
(15). Mekweisit 

Miscellaneous myths and tales 
(16). Kiwakw 
(17). Partridge 
(18). Rabbit's tricks 
(19). Laks goes salmon-spearing 
(20). How wolverine was frozen to death 
(21). How a man avenged himself on his wife's paramour 
(22). Alaista 
(23). The talking vagina 
(24). The origin of corn 
(25). The man who followed his wife into spirit land 
(26). Reprint of a tale from LeClercq's "New Relation of Gaspesia" 
(27). The moose people 
(28). The mountain man 
(29). The boy who lived with the bears 
(30) . The man who lived with the she-bear 
(31). The Indian who understood the language of the dogs 

Tales of war and adventure 
(32). How the Mohawk war party was drowned 106
(33) . A war party drowned by two women
(34). An army drowned by a single man
(35). A war incident
(36). Indian strategy
(37). The adventures of Elnadu 
(38). A story told to John Giles 
(39). How two Malecites were captured and what they did to escape
(40). Story of the two Malecites who went west, how one was killed and the other married and escaped 

Micmac stories 
(41). The naming of Restigouche, a Micmac story 
(42). The Micmacs take vengeance on the Mohawks