Malsum

Gluskap's evil wolf-twin (Leland: 'Malsumsis, Wolf the younger'), born by bursting from their mother. He schemes to destroy his brother; learning Gluskap's weakness, he is himself slain with a fern-root.

Parentage

• parent: Tabaldak

Domains

• wolves
• evil and discord

Powers

• Burst into the world through his mother's side
• Scheme to kill his brother by learning his secret weakness

Epithets

• Malsum latin · Malsum · oralThe wolf; Gluskap’s contrary brother who shapes the rough and harmful thingsWabanaki oral tradition; Leland, Algonquin Legends (secondary)

Relations

• twin sibling: GluskapReciprocal of wabanaki_gluskap.twin sibling — Twin sons of one mother: Gluskap born naturally, the wolf Malsum by bursting from her side — the good and destructive twins of the Wabanaki creation.C. G. Leland, The Algonquin Legends of New England (1884) (primary)
• killed by: GluskapSlain by his twin with the fern-root after his own plot to destroy Gluskap; in death he passes from the world he schemed to rule.C. G. Leland, The Algonquin Legends of New England (1884) (primary)

Sources

• existence: Leland, The Algonquin Legends of New England (1884) (primary)