Research Catalog

Title

• Where the chill came from : Cree Windigo tales and journeys / gathered and translated by Howard Norman.

Publication

San Francisco : North Point Press, 1982.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Norman, Howard A.

Description

129 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

Contains translations of 31 tales of confrontation with Windingos or spirit-beings of the Cree world. Tales were gathered during the author's travels through Cree Indian regions of Canada, west of Hudson's Bay. Also includes accounts of conversations with Cree elders about the 'natural history' of the Windigo, a discussion of its importance in Cree culture and a description of the manner in which Cree storytellers perform the tales.

Subject

• Cree Indians > Folklore
• Windigos

Genre/Form

Folklore

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Introduction -- II. The tales (1. The trails-end-at-shivering Windigo -- 2. The memory-mud Windigo -- 3. The childhood foxes Windigo -- 4. The thaw-duck Windigo -- 5. The curing fox Windigo -- 6. The echoing moth Windigo -- 7. The tree-anger Windigo -- 8. The owl-famine Windigo -- 9. The sideways-north Windigo -- 10. The smothers-fire Windigo -- 11. The swallowing tracks Windog -- 12. The crow news Windigo -- 13. The tempting broth Windogo -- 14. The skeletons-trick Windigo -- 15. The kettle mouths Windigo -- 16. The shrinking chill Windigo -- 17. The shaking hands Windigo -- 18. The Owl Island Windigo -- 19. The Moss Falls Windigo -- 20. The throat-of-snarls Windigo -- 21. The wrong chill Windigo -- 22. The kettle-weasel Windigo -- 23. The owl-heart Windigo -- 24. The frozen-lake-heart Windigo -- 25. The took-luck Windigo -- 26. The night-thief Windigo -- 27. The shrinking dreams Windigo -- 28. The hermit's apprentice Windigo -- 29. The split trees Windigo -- 30. The tent owl Windigo -- 31. The caribou-hermit Windigo.

ISBN

• 0865470472
• 0865470480 (pbk.) :

LCCN

^^^81081506^

OCLC

8265648

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library