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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. In 1973 a character ...
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.
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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 ...
[2] [4] All stories contained within the anthology are tales that have been told orally for centuries within Native American tribes. [6] [7] As the title of the collection suggests, each story contains a character that is known and depicted as a Trickster. [2] This character is the main focus of the story and is typically depicted as an animal ...
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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 ]