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These works set the template for later portrayals in popular culture, at times even replacing the Native American lore. [41] In an early short story by Thomas Pynchon, "Mortality and Mercy in Vienna" (first published in 1959), the plot centers around a character developing Wendigo syndrome and going on a killing spree.
Wabiwindego (literally “White Wendigo” or sometimes "White Giant" [1]) (d.1837), also spelled Wobwindego, Wobiwidigo, or Wabaningo, and known among the Ojibwe as Waabishkindip [2] (literally “White-Headed”), was a leader of the Grand River Band of Ottawa in what would become the U.S. State of Michigan.
Like the wendigo, the wechuge seeks to eat people, attempting to lure them away from their fellows by cunning. In one folktale, it is made of ice and very strong, and is only killed by being thrown on a campfire and kept there overnight until it has melted. [ 2 ]
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Ola Värmlänning, a booze swilling, Swedish-American prankster from Minneapolis, can easily be compared to the German Till Eulenspiegel. [ 2 ] Father Francis Xavier Pierz , a pioneer missionary priest , is the subject of many tales told among the Ojibwe people of White Earth Reservation and the German- and Slovenian-American Catholics of ...
Michael Greyeyes ('Rutherford Falls') and Devery Jacobs ('Reservation Dogs') look back on a milestone year for Indigenous representation on screen.
A Chippewa myth details how a least weasel killed a wendigo giant by climbing up its anus and sickening it. [19] Inuit mythology describes weasels as wise and brave. One story describes a hero who would choose to transform into a least weasel when he had to accomplish a task demanding bravery. [20]