Glooscap

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Glooscap

(ˈɡluːskæp) ,

Gluscap

or

Gluskap

n
(Non-European Myth & Legend) (among the Micmac and other Native North American peoples) a traditional trickster hero
[of Algonquian origin]
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This part of the anthology prints no work from east of the Ontario-Quebec border, though a Mikma'q Glooskap story, for example, would have been a welcome addition.
Hall (Cyrus Macmillan's Glooskap's Country and Other Indian Tales, 1956), Arthur Price (Marius Barbeau and Michael Hornyansky's The Golden Phoenix and Other French-Canadian Fairy Tales, 1958), and Leo Rampen (William Toye's The St Lawrence, 1959; Anne Wilkinson's Swann & Daphne, 1960).
The four picturebooks include The Mountain Goats of Temlaham (1969), a Tsimshian story in which a young boy's rescue of a mountain goat from cruel teasing by the villagers saves his life from the goats' revenge; How Summer Came to Canada (1969), a Micmac story of the creator god, Glooskap, and the giant, Winter, whose icy power is overcome by the Queen, Summer; The Loon's Necklace (1977), a Tsimshian story in which a loon magically restores a blind man's sight and receives its white markings in reward; and The Fire Stealer (1979), an Ojibway story of the theft of fire for his people by the creator-trickster figure Nanabozho.
For example in Summer, there is the Indian tradition that Glooskap, the mythical lord and creator of the Micmac, had a rock-like face and moss in his hair.