Psychosis in the shamanic vision of the Algonquians: The Windigo

di Marco Maculotti

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The aboriginal peoples of Canada, often settled in the reserves bordering the border with the United States, are now divided into tribes that bear different names (Algonquins, Cree, Ojibwa), although they mostly continue to share a very similar vision of man and his relationship with nature and with spirits - and, as it is easy to imagine, the same mythology. In the magical-shamanic universe that founds the vision of these populations - today the last bastion of wisdom that characterized the entire native population of North America for centuries - the spirits with which man can enter into communication are generally called manita - the same word that, with a capital letter, identifies the universal divine Being, the sacred energy that permeates everything.