Leland, Charles Godfrey 1824-1903 creator Deming, Edwin Willard 1860-1942 Smith, F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley) 1869-1931 Prince, John Dyneley 1868-1945 text utu 2026 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Kulóskap the Master, and Other Algonkin Poems" by Leland, Deming, Smith, and Prince is a collection of translated poems and legends written in the early 20th century. Centered on Wabanaki (Algonkin) oral tradition, it gathers metrical renderings of the Kulóskap epic alongside witchcraft lore, lyrics, and scholarly apparatus. The work presents creation myths, animal tales, and shamanic episodes from Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Micmac, Abenaki, and Delaware sources. The opening of the volume offers Leland’s preface on the richness and fragility of Native North American poetry, his metrical method, and his reliance on Passamaquoddy sources, followed by Prince’s introduction situating the Wabanaki languages, sketching tribal history and wampum-record practice, explaining polysynthesis, and defining Kulóskap’s role and shamanic context. The epic then begins: Kulóskap and his malicious twin Malsum are born by different means; Malsum kills their mother and later tries to murder his brother, but Kulóskap slays him with a fern. Kulóskap creates humans from the ash tree, resizes and names the animals to place them under human dominion, turns mocking dancers into rattlesnakes, and appears to people as lord of beasts and men. He brings dawn, survival skills, and star lore, and grants petitions with mixed outcomes: a hunter gains a flute that draws game, a lustful seeker is smothered by spirit-women from a forbidden bag, and a prankster doomed to an uncontrollable comic cry ends in despair. A longer episode follows in which the Badger is initiated as a forest fairy and Little Thunder wins a chief’s daughter by passing sorcerous trials (slaying a horned serpent, conquering sled, foot, and diving contests, and defeating a giant beaver and skunk) before returning the Master’s stone canoe. Briefly, a fool loses a panacea by opening it too soon, and a new tale begins about three brothers whose wishes turn them into trees. (This is an automatically generated summary.) The epic of Kulóskap -- Witchcraft lore -- Lyrics and miscellany -- Appendix: The Passamaquoddy wampum records [in Passamaquoddy and English] -- Glossary. Release date is 2026-05-13 Carol Brown, Aaron Adrignola, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Originally published: New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1902 Algonquian Indians -- Folklore Passamaquoddy language -- Texts Indians of North America -- New England -- Folklore E011 New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1902 02028508 https://archive.org/details/kulboskapmaster00lelarich/page/n9/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78673 https://archive.org/details/kulboskapmaster00lelarich/page/n9/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78673 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134826.0 78673