Glooscap the great chief, and other stories - ElectricCanadian.com

HOW GLOOSCAP DEFEATED THE SOK-
CEEEES
the olden time there was a man who had
INthree sons and a daughter. All were ma
gicians and giants. They ate human flesh, and
did everything that was horrible and wicked;
and the world soon grew tired of them and
all their doings. Yet when these people were
young, Glooscap had been their friend. He
had made the father his adopted father; the
brother, his brother; and the sister, his sister.
As they grew older,
and he began
to hear on
every side about their evil deeds, Glooscap said :
"I will go among them, and see whether this
is all true. If it is, they shall die. I will not
spare one of those who devour men and op
press them, I do not care who he may be."
So the Great Chief went to the sorcerers.
happened that their father had but one eye.
Glooscap made himself like him, so like him
that in no way were they different. He went
to the wigwam, and sat down by the old man.
The brothers came in, and seeing the newcomer
so like their father, they said :
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