Dangerous Spirits

An examination of the role of windigo narratives among the Algonquian peoples of North American and how those narratives were influenced through colonialism.

In the traditional Algonquian world, the windigo is the spirit of selfishness, which can transform a person into a murderous cannibal. Native peoples over a vast stretch of North America—from Virginia in the south to Labrador in the north, from Nova Scotia in the east to Minnesota in the west—believed in the windigo, not only as a myth told in the darkness of winter, but also as a real danger. Drawing on oral narratives, fur traders' journals, trial records, missionary accounts, and anthropologists’ field notes, this book is a revealing glimpse into indigenous beliefs, cross-cultural communication, and embryonic colonial relationships. It also ponders the recent resurgence of the windigo in popular culture and its changing meaning in a modern context.

The Bible reveals four spirits that are driven by Satan that are especially dangerous for Christians, or anybody for that matter, to have. These spirits are manifested in the lives of four characters in the Bible -- two in the Old Testament and two in the New Testament. They are: * The Spirit of Pharaohistic Pride* The Saulish Spirit of Rebelliousness, Stubbornness, Witchcraft, and Disobedience* The Judas Spirit of Betrayal* The Demas Spirit of WorldlinessIn this book, we will tackle each of these spirits, and we will see from the word of God exactly why these spirits are so dangerous and destructive and how to avoid them. If you heed the lessons contained in this book, it will help save you years of wasted time, missed blessings, and an unproductive life.

Bringing together scholars from Europe, America, and Australia, this volume explores the more fantastic elements of popular religious belief: ghosts, werewolves, spiritualism, animism, and of course, witchcraft. These traditional religious beliefs and practices are frequently treated as marginal in more synthetic studies of witchcraft and popular religion, yet Protestants and Catholics alike saw ghosts, imps, werewolves, and other supernatural entities as populating their world. Embedded within notarial and trial records are accounts that reveal the integration of folkloric and theological elements in early modern spirituality. Drawing from extensive archival research, the contributors argue for the integration of such beliefs into our understanding of late medieval and early modern Europe.

"This fascinating case study focuses on shamanism and the healing practices of the Taman, a formerly tribal society indigenous to the interior of Borneo. The Taman typically associate illness with an encounter with spirits that both seduce and torment a person in dreams or waking life. Rather than use medicines to counter the effect of these discomforting visitors, the shamans - called baliens - use stones that are said to contain the convergence of wild spirits that have come into being during the initiation ceremony".--P. 209.

There are monitoring spirits around which monitor people. Perhaps you are wondering how your enemies know your secrets or what you are up to and every move you make, or perhaps you do not understand how the enemy knows that you are at the edge of a breakthrough and he comes and truncates it.They get this information through monitoring powers on a suicide mission sent to follow you. The only way to be free is to know how to destroy these evil monitors.Find that out in this book and receive total freedom from the evil monitors.

Bringing together scholars from Europe, America, and Australia, this volume explores the more fantastic elements of popular religious belief: ghosts, werewolves, spiritualism, animism, and of course, witchcraft. These traditional religious beliefs and practices are frequently treated as marginal in more synthetic studies of witchcraft and popular religion, yet Protestants and Catholics alike saw ghosts, imps, werewolves, and other supernatural entities as populating their world. Embedded within notarial and trial records are accounts that reveal the integration of folkloric and theological elements in early modern spirituality. Drawing from extensive archival research, the contributors argue for the integration of such beliefs into our understanding of late medieval and early modern Europe.