THE ALGONQUIN LEGENDS OF NEW ENGLAND

OR

Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Tribes

BY

CHARLES G. LELAND

BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
(The Riverside Press, Cambridge)

[1884]

Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, November, 2003, by J. B. Hare. This text is in the public domain because it was published prior to 1923.

MIK UM WESS,
THE INDIAN PUCK, OR ROBIN GOODFELLOW.
From a scraping on birch bark by Tomah Josephs, Indian Governor at Peter Dana's Point, Maine. The Mik um wess always wears a red cap like the Norse Goblin.

p. ii

Copyright, 1884, BY CHARLES G. LELAND.

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