Glooscap

British  

/ ˈɡluːskæp /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of Glooscap

of Algonquian origin

Example Sentences

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

The story of how Glooscap reduced the size of the animals.

From Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore by Fewkes, Jesse Walter

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 Reed, Helen Leah

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 Fewkes, Jesse Walter

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

From Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore by Fewkes, Jesse Walter