Case file · Folklore / legend
Pamola of Katahdin
In Penobscot tradition Pamola, a storm spirit with a moose's head, a man's body and an eagle's wings, guards Katahdin and resents climbers. Thoreau recorded him after his 1846 ascent.
1846 CE · 45.91, -68.91 · status: legend
The account
Thoreau wrote that Pomola was 'always angry with those who climb to the summit of Ktaadn'. In some tellings Gluskab banished him to the mountain. Pamola Peak, at the eastern end of the Knife Edge, keeps his name.