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	Glooscap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Glooscap caught the eagle and bound its wings and the winds ceased.
		Glooscap was great in size and in powers and was said by the Mi'kmaq to have created natural features such as the Annapolis Valley.
		Glooscap killed the monster and the water was released.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glooscap (496 words)

	MicMac Creation Story
		Glooscap was so glad for his nephew's arrival to the Mik'Maq world, he called upon the salmon of the rivers and seas to come to shore and give up their lives.
		Glooscap was so happy that his mother came into the world and since she came from a leaf, he called upon his nephew to gather nuts, fruits of the plants while Nogami prepared a feast.
		Glooscap's mother came into the world from the leaf of a tree, so in honor of her arrival tobacco made from bark and leaves will be smoked.
	www.angelfire.com /ia2/stories3/micmac.html (3046 words)

	Glooscap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Glooscap, the culture hero, transformer of the Eastern Woodlands Indians.
		Huge in size and powers, Glooscap is said to have created natural features such as the Annapolis Valley, in the process often having to overcome his evil twin brother who wanted rivers to be crooked and mountains impassable.
		Glooscap slept across NS, using as his pillow PEI, known to the natives as Abegweit, meaning "Cradled on the Waves."
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0003286 (77 words)

	Jason McVicar - Religious Studies
		Glooscap then called another, a larger one, which came alongside; knowing her to be sufficiently strong, he stepped off on her back.
		Glooscap knew well what all this meant: she was not what she seemed, but an artful sorceress, his deadly foe, bent on his destruction.
		Glooscap gave his dogs the hint, and let them go; as soon as they began to growl at the girls, he commanded them to be quiet, telling them that these girls were his sisters.
	people.stu.ca /~gvvsx/mmr/readlog5.html (3887 words)

	Glooscap's Grandmother
		Glooscap was so happy to have a grandmother that he called to Marten swimming in the river.
		Now Nogami used her wisdom to speak with Gisoolg and Glooscap and Marten was brought back to life so he could return to his river but where he lay on the ground was the body of another marten.
		Glooscap asked Robin to fly to the place where the lightning had hit the ground to give Glooscap life, and bring the sparks that were there to him.
	www.geocities.com /sharlie230mikmaq/glooscapsgrandmother.html (528 words)

	Pyramid Mesa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Glooscap made all the animals, creating them to be peaceful and useful to humans.
		Glooscap said, "You'll drown all the people if I let you loose like this." He tapped the beaver on the back, and it shrank to it's present size.
		Glooscap made himself taller than the tallest tree, and even the monster's mile-wide mouth was too small for him.
	pyramidmesa.netfirms.com /passam1.html (1127 words)

	See Saint John - The World-Famous Reversing Falls
		Glooscap was the keeper of life in what is now New Brunswick.
		Glooscap picked up his giant club and hurried to the mouth of the river.
		As it did in the time of Glooscap, the waters of the St. John River rush down to meet the giant tides of the Bay of Fundy and the twice-daily battle goes on.
	www.seesaintjohn.com /f_reversingfalls.htm (778 words)

	Native American Legends - How Glooscap Found The Summer - Algonquin
		Glooscap set forth for the far north where all was ice.
		At once the whale stuck hard on to the beach so that Glooscap, leaping from her head, was able to walk ashore on dry land.
		Glooscap knew that here at last was the one who by her charms could melt old Winter's heart.
	www.firstpeople.us /FP-Html-Legends/HowGlooscapFoundtheSummer-Algonquin.html (820 words)

	FreshAir Adventure - Glooscap Legends
		Glooscap was created from one of the most common materials in the Mi'kmaq world - by a lightning bolt striking sand.
		According to folklore, Glooscap was said to reside on Blomindon, high buffs overlooking the Bay.
		As Glooscap stepped into the water, Whale stuck her head over the dam and asked, "Why have you stopped this water from coming to my domain?" Not wanting to anger his friend, Glooscap got up and walked back to land.
	www.freshairadventure.com /glooscap.html (579 words)

	Native American Legends - Glooscap And His People - Algonquin
		As Glooscap set about his work, the air was fragrant with balsam and the tang of the sea.
		He whispered an evil charm, and the remainder of the clay in Glooscap's hands twisted and fell to the ground in the form of a strange animal.
		Glooscap snatched up the nearest fern, root and all, and just in time: his evil brother was upon him, shouting his war cry.
	www.firstpeople.us /FP-Html-Legends/GlooscapAndHisPeople-Algonquin.html (1822 words)

	Glooscap and Winpe
		Glooscap returned word by Gray Gull that all his days were busy caring for his people and he had no time for games.
		Glooscap sprang off Bootup's back into the icy water, and as he waded into the darkness of the tunnel, the rock roof grew lower and lower, and the sides began to close in.
		Glooscap saw that his efforts were useless and let the fire die, and Noogumee and Marten came back to life again.
	www.indigenouspeople.net /winpe.htm (1518 words)

	How Glooscap Found Summer
		Their Great Chief, Glooscap, seeing all this from his lodge on Blomidon, knew at once that the cold was caused by a giant wizard named Winter, the Ice King.
		Glooscap hurried to the edge of the land and sang the magic song which called Bootup the Whale from the ocean.
		Glooscap now travelled on foot, the sun warm on his face, the forest green and leafy overhead, until he came to a grove of orange blossom where many fair maidens were dancing.
	www.indians.org /welker/foundsum.htm (1522 words)

	Glooscap Myth
		Glooscap loves adventure and his stories are often funny This myth is from Northern America.
		Glooscap was the first human being on earth and will live forever.
		Glooscap gave them each a bottle of medicine and they all got what they wanted, except the fourth his was granted in an unusual way.
	www.internet-at-work.com /hos_mcgrane/creation/csmytgl.html (530 words)

	Glooscap Grants Three Wishes
		When men had heard that Glooscap, the lord of men and beasts, would grant a wish to anyone who could come to him, three Indians resolved to attempt the journey.
		And to him Glooscap was also affable, secruig from the woods a certain magic root which, when eaten, would create the miracle the young man sought.
		This was the hunter, who trudged through the woods with his pipe in his pocket and peace in his heart, happy to know that as long as lived he would always have venison in his larder.
	www.angelfire.com /ca/Indian/ThreeWishes.html (758 words)

	Program 8: People of the Dawn \| MPBN'sHOME: The Story of Maine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Glooscap was a person or was a, like an Indian that, well, it's more of a legend then it is an actual individual, it's folklore.
		Glooscap told them to take the rope and tie down the wings of the crow and that would solve their problem.
		So Glooscap told them simply to go back and sneak up to the crow again and untie one wing and when he did that the winds turned to normal and that's the reason why it is not that way anymore.
	www.mpbc.org /homestom/p8fredtomah.html (2060 words)

	Vikings and Skraelings RPG: Lagakin Religion
		Glooscap was a giant who came from across the sea in a granite canoe.
		Some said that when Glooscap reached land long ago, there were no people there to greet him, so he drew his great bow and split open the ash trees, and the first humans stepped from the bark.
		Glooscap taught people how to track and snare those skittish animals and where to find wild vegetables and herbs for food and medicine.
	www.darkshire.net /jhkim/rpg/vinland/lagakin/religion.html (809 words)

	More stories
		Glooscap, having conquered the Kewawkqu', a race of giants and magicians, and the Medeclin, who were cunning sorcerers, and Pamola, a wicked spirit of the night, besides hosts of friends, goblins, cannibals, and witches, felt himself great indeed, and boasted to a woman that there was nothing left for him to subdue.
		Now Glooscap had never married and was ignorant of how children are managed, but with perfect confidence he smiled at the baby and asked it to come to him.
		At last Glooscap rushed from the hut in despair, while Wasis, sitting on the floor, cried, "Goo, goo!" And to this day the Indian say that when a baby says "Goo," he remembers the time when he conquered mighty Glooscap.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /lynsanders/morestories (702 words)

	Cape Dauphin / Glooscap's Cave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Supposedly Glooscap lived at Cape Dauphin with a woman he referred to as "Grandmother".
		Legend has it that one day, when returning to his home, two native women yelled to Glooscap, taunting him from the shore.
		Glooscap leaped from his canoe breaking it into two pieces.
	www.folkus.com /CBadventure/d_dauph.html (415 words)

	Micmac Creation Story
		She said to Glooscap, "I am your grandmother." Nogami said that she owes her existence to the rock, the dew and Nisgam, the Sun.
		She went on to explain that on one chilly morning a rock became covered with dew because it was sitting in a low valley.
		Glooscap told his mother and nephew that it is important for the Mi'kmaq to give honor, respect and thanks to the seven spiritual elements.
	www.glastonberrygrove.net /reference/history/micmac/mmcreate.html (3030 words)

	Rambles: Kay Hill, Glooscap & His Magic: Legends of the Wabanaki Indians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The legends are not entirely about Glooscap, although he does appear in all of them.
		Some, such as "How Glooscap Found Summer" and "How the Rabbit Lost His Tail," explain how things came to be.
		As a whole they make a nice starting point into the Wabanaki legends, allowing readers young and old alike a chance to meet some of the characters in a fairly safe setting.
	www.rambles.net /hill_glooscap79.html (258 words)

	The Weather Notebook \| Glooscap and the Bird
		AN: Glooscap had to go and tell this giant bird to stop flapping it's wings because it was putting out the fires and was creating cold in all the villages where the people lived, so the people were starting to freeze.
		So, they asked Glooscap, the teacher, what to do and he said he would go and find whatever was creating this wind.
		He didn't know it was the giant bird at the time, but when he finally came to the origination of the wind he found that it was a giant bird flapping it's wings constantly.
	www.weathernotebook.org /transcripts/2004/01/12.php (331 words)

	Glooscap and His People
		First, out of the rocks, he made the Little People--the fairies, or Megumoowesoos, small hairy creatures who dwelt among the rocks and made wonderful music on the flute, such music that all who heard it were bewitched.
		However, he whispered an evil charm, and the remainder of the clay in Glooscap's hands twisted and fell to the ground in the form of a strange animal--not beaver, not badger, not wolverine, but some thing of all three, and capable of taking any of these forms he chose.
		Glooscap snatched up the nearest fern, root and all, just in time--for his evil brother was upon him, shouting his war cry.
	www.indigenouspeople.net /hispeopl.htm (1833 words)

	L'Acadie - New strawberry cultivars and selections from Quebec breeding program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		'Glooscap' is a popular commercial cultivar in Eastern Central Canada.
		Fruit shape is necked-conic and the semi-reflexed calyces are as easy to decap as those of 'Chambly' and 'Glooscap'.
		The flesh is lighter red than the skin and it is sweet and firm.
	www.pgris.com /partners/cultivar/lacadie2.htm (434 words)

	Glooscap now has some company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The legendary god of several eastern native tribes., Glooscap lived atop Cape Blomidon with his adopted grandmother Noogunni and a young boy named Martin, according to Stan Spicer, author of Glooscap Legends.
		The new figure appears to be in the middle of a dance, a pose Tuck said was inspired by Rear Admiral Desmond Pierce of Chester.
		of flour, and all of Tuck's Financial Post newspapers and then some, the Glooscap statue was finished with a coating of fiberglass to protect it from the weather, and erected on the civic grounds where it still stands today.
	www.town.parrsboro.ns.ca /glooscap.htm (998 words)

	Penobscot Story of Corn Mother
		But one day, when the sun was high, a youth appeared and called him "Uncle, brother of my mother." This young man was born from the foam of the waves, foam quickened by the wind and warmed by the sun.
		It was the moistness of water, the motion of the wind and the warmth of the sun that gave the youth life.
		And Glooscap, the Great Uncle, who teaches humans all they need to know, taught their children how to live.
	aihc1998.tripod.com /pen.html (752 words)

	HMCS MICMAC - Badge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		One of the tales about Glooscap states states that he was born a twin and that his twin brother was as evil as Glooscap was good.
		This evil one constantly tried to kill Glooscap who always succeeded in foiling these attempts on his life, till finally one day, becoming tired of the whole business Glooscap rushed out and grasping a fern out of the forest, he went after his evil twin brother and slew him with the fern.
		Nevertheless, to the Micmacs, Glooscap was a prophet of the Great Spirit and they believed that he was responsible for many of the blessings and successes that came their way in peace and in battle.
	www.jproc.ca /micmac/badge.html (313 words)

	Civilization.ca - First Peoples of Canada - Our Origins, Origin Stories
		The Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot and Abenaki of the Atlantic region tell of Glooscap, who made the world habitable for human beings by creating and arranging landforms, giving animals their attributes and eliminating many monsters.
		In the Skyworld where the supernatural beings lived, the twins, Glooscap ("good") and Malsm ("weak"), were sent to earth in a large stone canoe.
		Glooscap set about and created all the animals and birds from the dirt.
	www.civilization.ca /aborig/fp/fpz2f21e.html (267 words)

	In the old time Wabanaki - Native American
		Glooscap, far away in his lodge on Blomidon, saw that the rabbit was becoming a thoroughly useless creature.
		So, wasting no time, Glooscap descended from his lodge to the beach in three huge strides, launched his canoe, and paddled across the Bay of Fundy to the shore near the rabbit's home.
		And far away on Blomidon, Glooscap, seeing his foolish rabbit mend his ways at last, set a light to his pipe and smoked contentedly.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art28310.asp (1576 words)

	Dozay's Native Art Gallery
		There is a special cave on the cliffs of Cape Dauphin on Cape Breton Island known as the "Fairy Hole" or "Glooscap's Door".
		This place for the Mi'kmaq in Unama'ki (Cape Breton) is said to be the door to Glooscap's wigwam.
		Glooscap does not want anyone to come inside.
	www.dozay.com (212 words)

	Native americans legends - Glooscap and the baby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Glooscap, having conquered the Kewawkqu', a race of giants and magicians, and the Medecolin, who were cunning sorcerers, and Pamola, a wicked spirit of the night, besides hosts of fiends, goblins, cannibals, and witches, felt himself great indeed, and boasted to a woman that there was nothing left for him to subdue.
		Wasis was only a baby, who sat on the floor sucking a piece of maple sugar and crooning a little song to himself.
		Glooscap, thoroughly aroused, summoned all his magical resources.
	home.online.no /~arnfin/native/lore/leg256.htm (342 words)

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