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Dangerous Spirits: The Windigo in Myth and History

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In the standard Algonquian world, the windigo is the spirit of selfishness, which will develop into an individual into a murderous cannibal. Native peoples over a vast stretch of North The usa—from Virginia within the south to Labrador within the north, from Nova Scotia within the east to Minnesota within the westmdash;believed within the windigo, not only as a myth told within the darkness of winter, but additionally as an actual danger.

Drawing on oral narratives, fur traders’ journals, trial records, missionary accounts, and anthropologists’ field notes, this book is a revealing glimpse into indigenous beliefs, cross-cultural communication, and embryonic colonial relationships. It also ponders the latest resurgence of the windigo in popular culture and its changing meaning in a brand new context.
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