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loup-garou
[< Cdn F < F loup wolf + garou < OF garoul < Gmc, whence also E werewolf]
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1n.
a werewolf.
This term and the superstition came to New France with the first settlers; in later use among the voyageurs and the French half-breeds, the loup-garou was confused with the Weetigo of the Algonkian peoples.
Quotations
1901
"But lissen dat win', how she scream outside, mak' me t'ink of de loup garou. . . ."
1910
The canoe rose in the air as if the ghost paddlers of the Loup Garou had lifted it. . . .
1923
The neighbours' gossip about him, that he were a werewolf, a loup garou, he had never heeded, and to requite him this power had struck into his own family.
1928
. . . it was on a par with Indian superstitions of the dread loup garou, or werewolf, who was able, so the stories go, to travel hundreds of miles in a single night.
1961
The black wilderness to the northward . . . was the source of terrifying tales told by the Indian children of the loup-garou, of Tache and of Windigo
2n. — Que.
See quote.
See: caribou(def. 4)
Quotations
1959
Some 225 people attended the affair, dined on buffalo steak, guzzled loups-garous ("were-wolves," hot red wine laced with rum), smoked peace pipes, toasted everything worth toasting.