Glooscap
Gluscap or Gluskap
/ (ˈɡluːskæp) /
(among the Micmac and other Native North American peoples) a traditional trickster hero
Origin of Glooscap
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How to use Glooscap in a sentence
This is the same bird one of whose wings Glooscap once cut when it had used too much force.
Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore | J. Walter FewkesBut Glooscap is said to have repaired the wing of Wochowsen, so that we now have wind alternating with calm.
Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore | J. Walter FewkesThe stories of the birth of Glooscap, his power to work miracles, and his ultimate return to earth, are very suggestive.
Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore | J. Walter FewkesIn another story the father of Glooscap is mentioned as a being who lives under a great fall of water down in the earth.
Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore | J. Walter FewkesAccording to Leland, the medicine man who turned the man into a cedar tree is Glooscap.
Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore | J. Walter Fewkes
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