"The winter was very hard, and we, the members of the Ojibway tribe, know that when the weather is bad, someone is going to be possessed by Windigo. Do you know how we realize the other members of the tribe when someone has made a wrong? At first, the possessed you do not feel normal food appeals : have nausea and vomiting before it. If the Windigo is within it, the person feels increasingly restless, more Food restless and eventually find it disgusting.
It is becoming a Windigo, a cannibal.
The healer then intervenes. If the spells do not get positive results, the possessed often asked the tribe to kill him. In the past we did. "
In the diagnostic manual of the WHO appears in the section on mental disorders, a category that meets the so-called cultural syndromes. These syndromes or disorders are rare, most anecdotal and unique to a complete culture.
Among these disorders is the Windigo syndrome, disorder or psychosis Windigo Windigo (also used the words Wihtigo, Wendigo, and Witiko Windibum )
In this case, is a type of mental disorder that occurred between the tribes, Cree, Montagnais-Naskapi, Ojibway and Saulteaux of Canada and Alaska. The person who suffered stopped eating, with nausea, vomiting, upset with the food, bouts of insomnia and hallucinations. If this state did not stop the person began to express fears that the wendigo (spirit) possessed him, causing it to end up becoming a cannibal. Before this happened asking the members of his tribe killed.
Winding is the Ojibwa name for a monster's own mythology of the Algonquin people, who make up this giant creature in the form of a seductive woman whose heart is made of ice (and in some representations head-fire). It can also occur as a kind of ogre or a half-human half-animal creature.
also the first European travelers boreal land represent the spirit of the North, who seduced the men lost in the white immensity while rushing to the madness.
supposed be living in the far north and deep forests of the Americas. Apparently it is a personification of the ancestral call to the deep forests and wild nature and causes in men, in their darker side, a myth to explain the beast that can turn a human being when he ignores the call. This myth could be related to stories among the indigenous peoples of cases of cannibalism to survive the harsh winters of these hard parts of the continent.
about Wendigo legends are numerous, and in some it is a personification of a great hunter who was lost in the forest and feed on human flesh was punished and became something of a monster with large hands with claws and very agile, which feeds on human flesh. In other is said to be a forest spirit, big and white hair, which feeds moss. In almost all are aware that eating warriors who ventured too large deserts and icy forests of northern United States and Canada and is lost in them.
delusions, hallucinations, fear of being possessed, attacks of agitated depression, oral sadistic fears and impulses ... All these symptoms are evoked in the songs that Amerindian shamans have been invented in honor of Windigo, songs that were thought could "cure" the patient before he became the monster.
Most cases from the nineteenth century although there is controversy about whether they really have come into existence. Marvin Harris argues that these episodes will respond only to a murder by priority in extreme environmental conditions, as they used the fear of wendigo as justification for breaking the taboo of killing a teammate. This is getting away with problematic elements and increase the chances of survival of the group. Marvin Harris also adds the importance of these cases only has the testimony of the surviving members and not the assumed wendigo. Seymour Parker For these environmental explanations are not credible because it was not always that psychosis was also famine and there are no known cases other peoples living in similar extreme situations, like the Eskimos. Parker gives a psychoanalytic explanation would have to do with frustrated dependency needs in childhood. He also claims that cases of Windigo psychosis occur mainly in men who have suffered setbacks in the game, feeling abandoned, helpless and powerless and rarely in women.
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