Mi'kmaq Legends

Native American Indian Legends - Index

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/

Links to Mi'kmaw stories from the "FirstPeople" site. I'm not sure how "authentic" all of them are. Some do sound familiar but have probably been reworked to sound more "mystical".

A Micmac Legend

                Aplíkmuj, The Lazy Rabbit - See Algonquin

                Fish-Hawk And Scapegrace

                Glooscap

                How A Certain Wicked Witch Sought To Cajole The Great And Good Glooskap, And Of Her Punishment

                How Glooskap Became Friendly To The Loons, And Made Them His Messengers

                How Glooskap Had A Great Frolic With Kitpooseagunow, A Mighty Giant Who Caught A Whale

                How Glooskap, Leaving The World, All The Animals Mourned For Him, And How, Ere He departed, He Gave Gifts To Men

                How Glooskap Made A Magician Of A Young Man, Who Aided Another To Win A Wife And Do Wonderful Deeds

                How Glooskap made his Uncle Mikchich the Turtle into a Great Man, and got him a Wife. Of Turtles' Eggs, and how Glooskap vanquished a Sorcerer by smoking Tobacco.

                How Glooskap Sailed Through The Great Cavern Of Darkness

                How Kluskap Created Sugarloaf Mountain - See Abenaki

                How Kluskap Found the Summer - See Algonquin

                How Kluskap Made The Birds

                How Kluskap Sang Through The Rapids And Found A New Home

                How Master Rabbit Gave Himself Airs

                How Master Rabbit Went Fishing

                How Master Lox Played A Trick On Mrs Bear, Who Lost Her Eyesight And Had Her Eyes Opened

                How Rabbit Got His Long Ears

                How The Rabbit Lost His Tail - See Ojibwa

                How Win-pe the Sorcerer, having stolen Glooskap's Family, was by him pursued, and how Glooskap for a Merry Jest cheated the Whale. Of the Song of the Clams, and how the Whale smoked a Pipe

                Kluskap Fights The Water Monster - See Passamaquoddy

                Kluskap Turns Bad Into Good - See Abenaki

                Legend Of The Turtle

                Little Burnt-Face

                Micmac Creation Story (version 1)

                Micmac Creation Story (version 2)

                Míkmaq Legend Of The Shooting Star

                Míkmaq Legend Of The Turtle

                Míkmaq Legend Of The Wild Goose

                Míkmaq Women Who Married Star Husbands

                Muin, The Bear's Child

                Nukumi And Fire

                Of Glooskap And The Three Other Seekers

                Of Other Men Who Went To Glooskap For Gifts

                Of The Great Works Which Glooskap Made In The Land

                Of The Surprising And Singular Adventures Of Two Water Fairies Who Were Also Weasels, And How They Each Became The Bride Of A Star. Including The Mysterious And Wonderful Works Of Lox, The Great Indian Devil, Who Rose From The Dead

                Rabbit And Otter, The Bungling Host

                Rabbit And The Moon Man

                Raccoon Learns A Lesson

                Robbery And Murder Revenged

                Snowshoe Island Legend

                Story Of The Three Strong Men

                The Adventures Of The Great Hero Pulowech, Or The Partridge

                The Bird Whose Wings Made The Wind

                The Changing Of Mikjikj

                The Chocolate Waters Of The Petitcodiac River aka The Legend Of The Tidal Bore

                The Creator Visits

                The First Pine Trees

                The Girl-Chenoo

                The Invisible One

                The Legend Of Kluskap's Departure

                The Legend Of The Big Bear

                The Legend Of The Islands

                The Little People

                The Mikumwess

                The Reversing Falls Legend

                The Hidden One

                The Tale Of Glooskap As Told By Another Indian. Showing How The Toad And Porcupine Lost Their Noses

                The Tide

                The Water Fairies

                The Wind-Blower

                The Woodpecker Girls

                Tumilkoontaoo, Or The Broken Wing

        

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