Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 04 : Tales of Puritan Land

"Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 04: Tales of Puritan Land" by Charles M. Skinner is a gathering of old stories and historical accounts that probably comes from the late 1800s. It is about the many legends of the first Puritan settlers in New England and the trials, problems, and tales of the people who lived there, with love, loss, and the supernatural as main ideas. The book starts by sharing different stories filled with Puritan beliefs and events, like the sad story of Evangeline Bellefontaine, who loses Gabriel Lajeunesse, the person she loves, when the British force the Acadians to leave, and how she spends a long time sadly looking for him, along with other adventures and some humor and sadness, with characters like the Swunksus, who is very lazy, and the Lewiston Hermit, who likes to be alone, mixed with the stories and locations that show what life was like back then. As the stories continue, readers get a chance to understand the special mix of history and myth that makes up early American life.