Dangerous Spirits: The Windigo in Myth and History

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ISBN-10:

1772030325

ISBN-13:

9781772030327

Author(s): Smallman, Shawn
Edition: First Edition
Released: Apr 23, 2015
Publisher: Heritage House
Format: Paperback, 224 pages

Description:

In the traditional Algonquian world, the windigo is the spirit of selfishness, which can transform a person into a murderous cannibal. Native peoples over a vast stretch of North America—from Virginia in the south to Labrador in the north, from Nova Scotia in the east to Minnesota in the westmdash;believed in the windigo, not only as a myth told in the darkness of winter, but also as a real 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 recent resurgence of the windigo in popular culture and its changing meaning in a modern context.

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