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Glooscap

/ ˈɡluːskæp /

noun

  1. (among the Micmac and other Native North American peoples) a traditional trickster hero


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Glooscap1

of Algonquian origin

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Example Sentences

This is the same bird one of whose wings Glooscap once cut when it had used too much force.

But Glooscap is said to have repaired the wing of Wochowsen, so that we now have wind alternating with calm.

The stories of the birth of Glooscap, his power to work miracles, and his ultimate return to earth, are very suggestive.

In another story the father of Glooscap is mentioned as a being who lives under a great fall of water down in the earth.

According to Leland, the medicine man who turned the man into a cedar tree is Glooscap.

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