Glooscap
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Glooscap
of Algonquian origin
Example Sentences
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Wabanaki origin stories tell of the mythic hero Glooscap shooting an arrow into a brown ash tree, and the Wabanaki people pouring out into the world from the hole in the trunk.
From The Verge ● Nov. 25, 2019
Blomidon, you remember, was the home of Glooscap, the deity of the Micmacs, and Minas Basin was his beaver pond.
From Amy in Acadia A Story for Girls by Helen Leah Reed
The part of the above account, of the return of Glooscap and the destruction of the world, they say is true.
From Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore by Jesse Walter Fewkes
It is given much more imperfectly in the tale of Kitpooseagunow in the Rand manuscript, and in the Anglo-Indian "Storey of Glooscap."
From Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Godfrey Leland
In another he can give to any one coming to him medicine to grant him whatever he wishes, and in still another Glooscap is now sharpening his arrows way off in some distant place.
From Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore by Jesse Walter Fewkes
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