Amaguq

shapeshifter · Canada · North America

Amaguq is the Iñupiaq word for wolf and the name of a wolf-spirit in Inuit tradition, a trickster able to shape-shift between wolf and human form. Reference works on mythological animals record him among Arctic trickster figures, related to the great wolf Amarok. Sources: Yowann Byghan's 'Sacred and Mythological Animals' (2020) and Mary Ellen Snodgrass's 'Encyclopedia of Fable' (1998).

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