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100 1 _aLeland, Charles Godfrey,
_d1824-1903
245 1 0 _aKulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems
246 1 _aKuloskap the master
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-05-13
505 0 _aThe epic of Kulóskap -- Witchcraft lore -- Lyrics and miscellany -- Appendix: The Passamaquoddy wampum records [in Passamaquoddy and English] -- Glossary.
508 _aCarol 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.)
520 _a"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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1902
653 _aAlgonquian Indians -- Folklore
653 _aPassamaquoddy language -- Texts
653 _aIndians of North America -- New England -- Folklore
700 1 _aDeming, Edwin Willard,
_d1860-1942
700 1 _aSmith, F. Berkeley
_q(Frank Berkeley),
_d1869-1931
700 1 _aPrince, John Dyneley,
_d1868-1945
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/kulboskapmaster00lelarich/page/n9/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78673
999 _c119391
_d119391