Mythical Creatures of Maine by Christopher Packard

Author:Christopher Packard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Down East Books
Published: 2021-05-10T00:00:00+00:00

Another Wabanaki creature, the chebelaque (or tci’pilakw or geebellowk), has a very similar description to Pamola and may be the same creature. This “spirit of the night air” is all head and heart with long legs, large talons, and giant wings. Its large eyes can sometimes be seen grinning down from the crotch of trees. When a chebelaque attacks, it screeches and resembles a diving owl; nothing can harm it, and whoever it attacks is doomed.

Perhaps the best-known account of Pamola is Leroy Dudley’s friendlier but still formidable version of Pam ola described in the book Chimney Pond Tales. Dudley was a famous Katahdin guide of the early twentieth century who told many stories of his encounters with Pamola. Dudley described him this way: “He stood eighteen or twenty feet tall, with body and legs like a man, but all covered with coarse hair like a moose. His head was like a moose and his ears and horns, but he had kind of a big curved beak like an eagle. He had a great long beard on his chin, as much as three feet long or longer.” He goes on to describe Pamola as having bat wings and glowing eyes. Dudley’s version of Pamola is the familiar one used on logos and scout badges. Some early accounts mistakenly connect the name Pamola to various other dangerous creatures, such as big cats or even cannibal giants, but Pamola is certainly a winged creature.

This early sketch of Pamola by Father Eugene Ventromile (1884) confuses Pamola with a Wabanaki giant, but it does capture the lack of a body except for a heart.

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