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Cold Maker
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
in Indian mythology, the spirit responsible for cold weather; in later use, the north wind.
See: Keewatin
Quotations
1909
. . . it was like the day we first met, old Coldmaker hitting the world with his whips of frost, and shaking his ragged blankets of snow over the wild west.
1918
. . . we sat back of our rye grass couches and were truly comfortable, and very thankful that Cold Maker had not overcome us!