Contextualizebeta

bear walker

noun

Etymology

Calque of Ojibwe me'coubmoosa (“bear walker”).

Definitions

  1. An evil sorcerer, specifically one who walks by night in the form of a bear.

    • The hair ornament was worn by the Bear-Walker before and during the casting of spells.
    • He told Jim he saw a Bear-walker approaching the house then and there.
    • These bear-walkers owed their powers to their personal manito, the bear, and traveled in disguise at night, causing disease among their victims.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bear walker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA