Speck. Myths of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa

Today's free book is Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa by F. G. Speck (1915). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

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


Table of Contents

Wiske'djak cycle
(1) Wiske'djak pursues the Beaver
(2) Wiske'djak kills the Bear and gets his head fastened in the skull 
(3) Wiske'djak invites the Ducks to a dance
(4) Wiske'djak anum suum urit and originates rock-weed and red willow from the scabs
(5) Wiske'djak disguises himself as a Lynx 
(6) Wiske-djak's love affair
(7) Cirjgabis 
(8) Remarks about Wiske'djak 
(9) Further comment on Wiske'djak 

Timiskaming folk-lore 
(1) Wi'ndigo 
(2) Pa-'guk' 
(3) Constellation Ursa Major 
(4) Northern Lights 
(5) Rainbow 
(6) Milky Way
(7) White animals 
(8) Dwarfed animals 
(9) Partridge breast-bone as omen 
(10) Wings of birds and skulls as amulets
(11) Blue bottle flies
(12) Rabbits' hair thrown into fire 
(13) Fish bone 
(14) Left-handed people 
(15) Bear feast 
(16) Legend of Iroquois Falls 

CHAPTER II.

Myths and folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa

Myths and tales 

(1) Nenebuc, the transformer 
(a) The magic birth of Nenebuc and his four brothers
(b) Nenebuc tempers the wind 
(c) Nenebuc starts travelling, anum suum castigat for deceiving him, changes the colour of the Partridge family, and originates rock tripe from his scabs for the benefit of the people 
(d) Nenebuc prepares a feast and gets caught between two trees, while the animals receive a distribution of fat
(e) Nenebuc gets caught in the Bear's skull 
(f) Nenebuc wounds the Giant Lynx, disguises himself in a Toad's skin, and finally slays her 
(g) The Giant Lynx causes the World Flood and gathers the animals on a raft; Muskrat dives for earth, which Nenebuc transforms into a new world 
(h) Nenebuc sends Crow out, for disobedience changes him black and Gull partly black, then retires to the west, until he will return again

(2) Nenebuc fragment 
(3) Nenebuc transforms the Bear 
(4) Wemicus 
(5) Ciijgabis 
(6) Beaver gives a feast
(7) Tcaka-bis
(8) Aniwo'ye, the Giant Skunk, and the origin of Skunks
(9) The man who transformed a doll into a woman and
followed her into the world above 
(10) Ayas-e and the origin of Bats
(11) Origin of the Constellation Fisher (Ursa Major) 
(12) The young Loon 
(13) The Giant Pike
(14) Lynx and his two wives 
(15) Story of Seal Rock in Lake Timagami 
(16) Rabbit, Lynx, and Fisher 
(17) Snaring the Sun 
(18) Homo Excrementi 
(19) The origin of Snakes 
(20) Muskrat warns the Beaver 
(21) .Story of a hunter
(22) A Timagami story
(23) -Story of a fast runner
(24) The hunter and the seven Deer 
(25) Story of a conjurer
(26) Legend of Obabika lake 
(27) Iroquois pictographs 
(28) An Iroquois legend 

Timagami folk-lore 
(1) Telling stories in summer 
(2) Foretelling sex of child to be born 
(3) How to bring rain 
(4) Northern Lights 
(5) Milky Way 
(6) Rainbow 
(7) Whippoorwill's cry
(8) Rain omens
(9) Killing blue bottle flies 
(10) Finding a live mole
(11) Hiccoughing 
(12) Children born feet first
(13) Cooking squirrels
(14) How to bring on a snowstorm
(15) An infant warming its hands 
(16) Red sunset
(17) Whirling buzzer
(18) Divining what game id to be killed
(19) Supernatural creatures:
Pa-g-ak 
Me'megwe'S'i 

Appendix: Notes on Timagami folk-lore, by Neil C. Fergusson
(1) Whisky Jack and the markings on birch bark
(2) The two girls, Hell-diver, and Loon