Identifier: algonquinlegends00lela (find matches)
Title: The Algonquin legends of New England : or, Myths and folk lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903
Subjects: Algonquian Indians Indians of North America
Publisher: London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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near. The friend said there was one halfa days journey distant. We must go there to-mor-row, said the Chenoo. And they went together, very early. The Indianwas fleet in such running. But the old man, whoseemed so wasted and worn, went on his snow-shoeslike the wind. They came to the spring.2 It waslarge and beautiful; the snow was all melted awayaround it; the border was flat and green.3 system to the new regimen, he must thoroughly clear it of theold. — Rand manuscript. This is a very naive and curiousIndian conception of moral reformation. It appears to be a veryancient Eskimo tale, recast in modern time by some zealousrecent Christian convert. 1 That is, cured, dried, smoked, and then packed and pressedin large blocks. 2 The Micmacs have two words for a spring of water : onefor summer, utkuboh, which means that the water is cool ; theother for winter, keesoobok, indicating that it is warm. — S. T.Rand. 3 Not uncommon round warm springs even in midwinter, andamong ice and snow.
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Q< O O UJ X u LJ II- THE CHENOO LEGENDS. 237 Then the Chenoo stripped himself, and dancedaround the spring his magic dance ; and soon the waterbegan to foam, and anon to rise and fall, as if somemonster below were heaving in accord with the stepsand the song. The Chenoo danced faster and wilder;then the head of an immense Taktalok, or lizard,rose above the surface. The old man killed it with ablow of his hatchet. Dragging it out he began againto dance. He brought out another, the female, notso large, but still heavy as an elk. They were smallspring lizards, but the Chenook had conjured them;by his magic they were made into monsters. He dressed the game ; he cut it up. He took theheads and feet and tails and all that he did not want,and cast them back into the spring. They will growagain into many lizards, he said. When the meatwas trimmed it looked like that of the bear. Hebound it together with withes; he took it on his shoul-ders ; he ran like the wind; his load was nothing. The

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