He never grows old and will live as long as the world lives.
Glooscap made all the animals and people it is said.He made the animals to be peaceful and useful to man.
Glooscap is a spirit a medicine man, a sorcerer. He can do anything it is said.
When glooscap formed the first squirrel he made it the size of a whale. What will you do when I set you in the world glooscap asked squirrel. Squirrel went over to a giant tree and chewed it into tiny pieces. You are too destructive said glooscap He remade squirrel smaller. The first moose he made was so tall it reached into the sky and trampled mountain tops. You are too big said glooscap and you will destroy everything so he remade moose. In the village glooscap made the people were happy smiling. Glooscap had taught the people to hunt and fish everything they needed to know to be happy peaceful people.
The village had only one spring to get water from.
Mysteriously the water dried up in the spring and the fall rains or the winter snow could not fill the spring. The people were very thirsty so one man decided to walk along the spring to see why it had dried up. The man came upon a village with creatures living there that were web toed. This seemed strange to the man but he needed to ask these webbed toed yellowed eyed creatures if they had clean water. 'We cant give you any water our chief keeps all the water you will have to ask him they grunted. Follow the brook you will find him' . The man began the walk along the spring. He was frightened by the sight of the chief he was a monstrous looking creature with warts and yellow eyes and when he spoke the foul breathe made man ill. "What do you want little man?' he growled.
Trembling in fear the man quietly spoke, ' Water my village needs water.
'I don't care what you need, go else where, don't bother me or I will swallow you up! and the monster opened wide his mouth and man could see he had swallowed moose and other things the monster had killed. Man ran away.
The man ran all the way back to his village and told his people what happened. What will we do the people cried. Glooscap who knows everything before it happens decided he must set things right.
He would have to fight the monster and get water to his people. he painted himself for war in red paint. He wore two clam shells for earrings and made himself twelve feet tall. He placed a hundred black eagle feathers and a hundred white feather in his scalp locks.He painted yellow rings around his eyes. He look furious,like a monster .Glooscap stamped his feet and the earth shook his war cry was heard from mountain to mountain around the world. Glooscap grabbed a mountain and formed a sharp knife from it.Now I am ready and he began to go t the webbed people thunder and lightening followed him. I want water he demanded from the webbed creatures.They gave him muddy water, ' I want clean water', he said and went upstream to the water monster. ' Go away', the monster growled all the waters mine. Glooscap was angry and said, ' you slimy lump of mud, and they began to fight. Glooscap made himself even bigger and with a swift blow of his knife to the belly of the water monster all that he had swallowed was released. A mighty river came roaring from the monsters belly flowing by the village and forming a sea. 'That should be enough water for the people,' said Glooscap and he flung the slimy monster that he had squeezed into the size of a bull frog. To this day frog has the loose skin due to him being squeezed by Glooscap.