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Wabanaki / Che-pitch-calm / Weewil-l-mecqu
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Region: North America
Time Period: Unknown
References in Literature: None
Sources: Native American Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals

  • Huge, wingless, horned, shining copper scales or a gleaming fish

"When Glooskap's envoy visited the giant sorceress, he was required by his host to kill a dragon as a task .... The Indian killed it by putting a log across its hole, and when it was half out chopped it in two." Pg 139.

Other names:
  • Micmacs - Che-pitch-calm
  • Passamaquoddies - Weewil-l-mecqu

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