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In an age where both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people are demanding truth and seeking reconciliation, Dangerous Spirits is a revealing glimpse into cross-cultural (mis)communication and the social and spiritual impact of colonialism.
27 avr. 2015 · Dangerous Spirits: The Windigo in Myth and History. by Shawn Smallman. Heritage House. 222 pages, $19.95. For hundreds of years, terrifying stories of the Windigo, a cannibalistic being with supernatural powers, have been part of the mythology of the Algonquian people.
In mythology and folklore, a vengeful ghost or vengeful spirit is said to be the spirit of a dead person who returns from the afterlife to seek revenge for a cruel, unnatural or unjust death.
7 nov. 2014 · 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.
23 avr. 2015 · Dangerous Spirits tells the story of how belief in the windigo clashed with the new world order that came about after European contact. Dismissing the belief as superstitious, many early explorers, traders, and missionaries failed to understand the complexity and power of the windigo—both as a symbol and as a threat to the physical ...
7 nov. 2014 · 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—fro...
Were they mythological beings, exaggerated like “Bigfoot” into tall tales? Were they manifestations of culture-bound mental illness, exacerbated by the trauma of genocide? What are Windigos today? These are some of the questions explored in Shawn Smallman’s Dangerous Spirits.
