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Two quotations on possession
Oct. 21st, 2022 06:34 pmStill plugging away at Megan Rose's Spirit Marriage, which is leading me to learn more about spirit possession and its overlap with plural/more-than-one stuff. This part is from an interview with Voodoo Queen Bloody Mary in New Orleans:
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This other one's from "Reviving Witiko (Windigo): An Ethnohistory of “Cannibal Monsters” in the Athabasca District of Northern Alberta, 1878–1910" by Nathan D. Carlson, in Ethnohistory 56:3 (Summer 2009):
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The citations given for that passage are:
Robert Brightman, Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships (Regina, SK, 2002), pg. 76–102, 153–56.
R. H. Cockburn, ed., “Like Words of Fire: The Lore of the Woodland Cree from the Journals of P. G. Downes,” The Beaver 315 (1984): 41
Cockburn is the specific source for the "augmented personality" bit, so I'd have to dig in further.
It's becoming increasingly clear to me that my own religious ignorance has hindered learning my own history, and that there's no way I can learn about multi/plural/more-than-one/WHATEVER history and ways of being without going and learning about spirit possession, religion, and other ways of life. I feel like a fool for not realizing this sooner, but at least now I've got some leads and an idea what search terms to use. (It's horrible to be so pig-ignorant you don't even know the WORDS to use to SHIFT said ignorance.)
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This other one's from "Reviving Witiko (Windigo): An Ethnohistory of “Cannibal Monsters” in the Athabasca District of Northern Alberta, 1878–1910" by Nathan D. Carlson, in Ethnohistory 56:3 (Summer 2009):
( Read more... )
The citations given for that passage are:
Robert Brightman, Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human-Animal Relationships (Regina, SK, 2002), pg. 76–102, 153–56.
R. H. Cockburn, ed., “Like Words of Fire: The Lore of the Woodland Cree from the Journals of P. G. Downes,” The Beaver 315 (1984): 41
Cockburn is the specific source for the "augmented personality" bit, so I'd have to dig in further.
It's becoming increasingly clear to me that my own religious ignorance has hindered learning my own history, and that there's no way I can learn about multi/plural/more-than-one/WHATEVER history and ways of being without going and learning about spirit possession, religion, and other ways of life. I feel like a fool for not realizing this sooner, but at least now I've got some leads and an idea what search terms to use. (It's horrible to be so pig-ignorant you don't even know the WORDS to use to SHIFT said ignorance.)
