Canada: Spirit Beings, Mental Illness, And Murder: Fur Traders And The Windigo In Canada's ...

Canada: Spirit Beings, Mental Illness, And Murder: Fur Traders And The Windigo In Canada's Boreal Forest, 1774 To 1935 Shawn Smallman, 2010   This article builds on the extensive literature regarding the Algonquian belief in the windigo, a cannibal spirit, by examining how traders of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) viewed this phenomenon from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. As native people brought windigos to posts for care or sought help from HBC employees to protect their...

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