"bear walker" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "oj",
        "3": "",
        "4": "me'coubmoosa",
        "t": "bear walker"
      },
      "expansion": "Calque of Ojibwe me'coubmoosa (“bear walker”)",
      "name": "clq"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Calque of Ojibwe me'coubmoosa (“bear walker”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bear walkers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bear walker (plural bear walkers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Folklore",
          "orig": "en:Folklore",
          "parents": [
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1901, Charles Edward Brown, The Wisconsin Archeologist, page 116:",
          "text": "The hair ornament was worn by the Bear-Walker before and during the casting of spells.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953, Inland Seas, Great Lakes Historical Society, page 13",
          "text": "He told Jim he saw a Bear-walker approaching the house then and there."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, Christopher Vecsey, Traditional Ojibwa Religion and its Historical Changes, →ISBN, page 148:",
          "text": "These bear-walkers owed their powers to their personal manito, the bear, and traveled in disguise at night, causing disease among their victims.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An evil sorcerer, specifically one who walks by night in the form of a bear."
      ],
      "id": "en-bear_walker-en-noun-YjYbtp~N",
      "links": [
        [
          "folklore",
          "folklore"
        ],
        [
          "sorcerer",
          "sorcerer"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Native American",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Native American, folklore) An evil sorcerer, specifically one who walks by night in the form of a bear."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "bear walk"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "topics": [
            "fantasy"
          ],
          "word": "werebear"
        },
        {
          "word": "Bear Walker"
        },
        {
          "word": "bear-walker"
        },
        {
          "english": "Escanaba in da Moonlight",
          "word": "bearwalk used in the comedy Escanaba in da Moonlight"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "arts",
        "folklore",
        "history",
        "human-sciences",
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bear walker"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "oj",
        "3": "",
        "4": "me'coubmoosa",
        "t": "bear walker"
      },
      "expansion": "Calque of Ojibwe me'coubmoosa (“bear walker”)",
      "name": "clq"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Calque of Ojibwe me'coubmoosa (“bear walker”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bear walkers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bear walker (plural bear walkers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bear walk"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms calqued from Ojibwe",
        "English terms derived from Ojibwe",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Folklore"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1901, Charles Edward Brown, The Wisconsin Archeologist, page 116:",
          "text": "The hair ornament was worn by the Bear-Walker before and during the casting of spells.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953, Inland Seas, Great Lakes Historical Society, page 13",
          "text": "He told Jim he saw a Bear-walker approaching the house then and there."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, Christopher Vecsey, Traditional Ojibwa Religion and its Historical Changes, →ISBN, page 148:",
          "text": "These bear-walkers owed their powers to their personal manito, the bear, and traveled in disguise at night, causing disease among their victims.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An evil sorcerer, specifically one who walks by night in the form of a bear."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "folklore",
          "folklore"
        ],
        [
          "sorcerer",
          "sorcerer"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Native American",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Native American, folklore) An evil sorcerer, specifically one who walks by night in the form of a bear."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "arts",
        "folklore",
        "history",
        "human-sciences",
        "literature",
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "topics": [
        "fantasy"
      ],
      "word": "werebear"
    },
    {
      "word": "Bear Walker"
    },
    {
      "word": "bear-walker"
    },
    {
      "english": "Escanaba in da Moonlight",
      "word": "bearwalk used in the comedy Escanaba in da Moonlight"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bear walker"
}