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A venerable children's song insists that the Indians of old were consistently high-minded and ("bless my soul!") double-jointed. Perhaps so, but their favourite characters were anything but consistent in either character or physique. Their variability, the archaic symbols in their stories, and the anomalies that crept into those stories through countless re-tellings are not the least of the problems an adapter faces in preparing versions for children that will be comprehensible yet true to the spirit and flavour of the originals. One of the very few habitually high- minded Indian creations was the Waba- naki's humorous benevolent demigod, Glooscap, affable hero o r final authority in scores of legends. Glooscap created a world — parts of the Maritimes and New England — where the Wabanaki, sur- rounded by archetypal animal charac- ters, contended with King Winter, cruel Famine, cannibal chenoos, and cold- blooded, wizardly boooins.
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Stephane Charbonneau
reviewed Glooskap's country and other Indian tales on October 28, 2012
Glooskap's country and other Indian tales
The short children's stories in Glooscap and His Magic remind somewhat of Grimm's fairy tales. The Wabanaki legends, as they are told here, are not nearly as ironic, odd or dark as Grimm's and they all carry an ethical and perhaps even a moral lesson. Glooscap, a mythical Wabanaki hero, is referred to as the Great Chief, Master and is said to be the maker of Little People (fairies), which came first, then men and women and finally out of the rocks and clay, Glooscap made the animals.
In each of the short stories, Glooscap conducts some form of intervention. Often this occurs while in disguise so that and the moral or ethical character of his 'subject' can be determined and either rewarded or punished as appropriate. In psychoanalytical terms, Glooscap embodies the Lacanian concept of Ego-Ideal'-the agency whose gaze I try to impress with my ego image, the big Other who watches over me and propels me to give my best.
On a simpler level, I can't imagine any young child not enjoying and being enchanted by these stories.
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