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Updated: May 13, 2025
Thus, in the Edda we are told that the first birth on earth was that of a giant girl and boy, begotten by the feet of a giant and born from his armpit. In the Wabanaki legends, the first birth was of Glooskap, the Good principle, and Malsum the Wolf, or Evil principle. The Wolf was born from his mother's armpit. He is sometimes male and sometimes female. His feet are male and female, and converse.
Malsum the Wolf, his twin brother, the typical colossal type of all Evil, will come to life, with all the giant cannibals, witches, and wild devils slain of old; but the champion will gird on his magic belt, and the arrows will fly in a rain as at Ragnarok: the hero will come sailing in his wonderful canoe, which expands to hold an army. Thus it will be on
It is said that when Glooskap left the world, as he took away with him the kings of all the animals, Lox went with him as king of the Wolves. This is an identification of him with Malsum, the Wolf, himself. How Master Lox played a Trick on Mrs. Bear, who lost her eyesight and had her eyes opened. Don't live with mean people if you can help it.
He will arise at the last day, when Glooskap is to do battle with all the giants and evil beasts of olden time, and will be the great destroyer. Malsum is the Wolf Fenris of this the true Indian Edda. For a further comment on this birth of the twins and its resemblance to a passage in the Edda, the reader is referred to the notes on the next chapter.
Now in those times the Beavers were monstrous beasts, and the Master, though kind of heart, seems to have had but little love for them ever since the day when Qwah-beetsis, the son of the Great Beaver, tempted Malsum to slay his brother. Now Glooskap would have a hunt and do a deed which should equal the great whale-fishing of Kit-pooseeog-unow.
Of Glooskap's Birth, and of his Brother Malsum the Wolf. Now the great lord Glooskap, who was worshiped in after-days by all the Wabanaki, or children of light, was a twin with a brother. As he was good, this brother, whose name was Malsumsis, or Wolf the younger, was bad. Before they were born, the babes consulted to consider how they had best enter the world.
Again, great stress is laid in the Glooskap legend upon the fact that the last great day of battle with Malsum the Wolf and the frost-giants, stone-giants, and other powers of evil, shall be announced by an earthquake.
It is very evident that in this tradition Glooskap represents the Good principle, and Malsumsis, the little wolf, that is the Wolf who is the Younger, rather than little or small, the Evil one. Malsum typifies destruction and sin in several of these tales.
Printed, but written in Indian-English. Manuscript: Six Stories of the St. Francis or Abenaki Indians. Taken down by Miss Abby Alger. Osgood's Maritime Provinces. In this work there are seven short extracts relative to Glooskap given without reference to any book or author. Of Glooskap's Birth, and of his Brother Malsum, the Wolf
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