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Glooscap
/ ˈɡluːskæp /
noun
- (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.
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But Glooscap is said to have repaired the wing of Wochowsen, so that we now have wind alternating with calm.
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The stories of the birth of Glooscap, his power to work miracles, and his ultimate return to earth, are very suggestive.
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In another story the father of Glooscap is mentioned as a being who lives under a great fall of water down in the earth.
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According to Leland, the medicine man who turned the man into a cedar tree is Glooscap.
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