Case Study On Wendigo

For instance, diarrhea and headaches, which are common symptoms of bacterial infections, are believed to occur due to jealousy, anxiety, and shame, which they term as natural causes. In addition, loss of weight and appetite is believed to be a temporary state of body weakness, which does not need medical attention and will cease with time. On the other hand, Lockwood (2009) explains that illnesses such as skin sores, leprosy, madness, epilepsy, and pneumonia occur as a result of direct supernatural causes. For instance, such cases of illnesses occur after a breach or transgression of some customary laws and taboos. For that reason, the only possible cure is through treatment by sorcerers or traditional Bushmen as opposed to going to the hospital (Shahid, Finn, Bessarab, & Thompson, 2009). This can have adverse effects on the health of the aboriginal people, especially where critical conditions like mental disorders or pneumonia are involved.

There are two kinds of Wendigos, Non-Human and Human. The first human Wendigo is sometimes said to have been a man who, driven mad by hunger and snow blindness, mistook his family for a group of beavers, killed and ate them (Smith 68). Human Wendigos do not always take on the traditional described appearance unless they are exposed to the severe isolation required to drive the person mad. Most human Wendigos mostly retain their human features, and instead only experience the desire for loneliness and a craving for human flesh. Also common to stories, both in legend and those recorded by persons studying native tribes, was the belief that a person transforming into a Wendigo had lost permanent control over their own actions and that the only possible solution is death (Ridington 108). Many people, fearing that they would bring harm to their family, begged for death rather than face a full transformation. Human Wendigos, although powerful, can be killed by dismemberment and the burning the remains to prevent the evil spirit from ever returning to the earth (Atwood 85). In the majority of stories that result in the death of a Wendigo, that Wendigo was at one time a human. Other traditional cures involved the consumption of copious amounts of hot grease from sources such as bear fat, melted deer tallow, and sturgeon oil

People who suffer from personality disorders often display deviant behavior. The mental illness itself is not deviant. They typically have problems with social skills, mood swings, emotional states, and are often unable to maintain healthy, stable relationships. Many sufferers do not possess the capability to have genuine emotions, including empathy for others. A personality disorder is the basis of many circumstances of maladaptive behavior including substance abuse, self-harm, suicide, and criminality.

The Huron tribe was economically important, they ran a trading network that would transport corns and beans to the Indians located in the North and would receive, as an exchange fur and other products from the northern tribes. The Huro had an important role in the fur trade with France.

The experience of the Firs Nation’s during the fur trade would have been a new and novel situation for all First Nation’s. York and Hudson Bay Company led a competition between anyone living in Canada at the time but it became very competitive for the First Nation tribes. There was increasing fur and goods in 1730, but shortly after there was a sharp decline in goods until 1750 because of the competition was so hard. Indian tribes competed with one another for control of the trading posts. Problem was, there was a distance between the tribes that made trading more difficult, the Mountain Indians travelled 37 days downstream and took months to return. Assiniboine and Cree bands were taking over control of their inland trading of York factory

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Cannibalism, also known as anthropophagi, is defined as the act or practice of eating members of the same species. The word anthropophagi comes from the Arawakan language name for the Carib Indians of the West Indies. The Caribs are well known for their practice of cannibalism. Among humans, this practice has been attributed to people in the past all over the world, including

The major psychological disorders fall under anxiety disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia and other disorders such as eating, personality or dissociation disorders. By classifying these disorders, scientist can then describe and predict its future course. Mental health workers view psychological disorders as patterns of thoughts, feelings, or actions that are deviant, distressful and dysfunctional. The standard for what is deviant behavior is different in different cultures and in different context.

Personality disorders are very defined and recognized in today’s society. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) published by the American Psychiatric Association provides common language and standards classifying mental disorders. The DSM is used by many people in varying disciplines in the USA as well as many other countries. In times past, people with disorders may have been outcast from a community or even persecuted. However, in our current culture the pendulum has swung in the other direction. It almost seems that there is a trend to explain all behavior by a mental disorder. This results in needing to disprove that certain people are not displaying a disorder, rather acting within a normal human emotion or

Imagine. You awake one morning not feeling like yourself. Your head is pounding. You feel nauseous and as if you might vomit. Over the next few days these symptoms do not disappear but worsen. You express symptoms of insomnia, poor appetite and melancholia. You even experience hallucinations where you have an intense desire to eat human flesh. This is a reality for many. It is a disorder known as Windigo Psychosis or Wendigo. This illness is commonly recognized for its aberrant behaviours of those diagnosed admitted to being fearful of developing cannibalistic tendencies.

There are many variations on human cannibalism, but the main three are survival cannibalism, endocannibalism and exocannibalism. Survival cannibalism is the practice of human beings eating other human beings as a necessity in order to survive. This type of practice

Cannibalism is an act that is thought to be heinous and inconceivable in the minds of men. But, contrary to what many people think, cannibalism is very much alive and still being practiced within the continental United States of America; the thing is…the government just hasn't found out about it yet. This report will take you through the history of cannibalism, the different types of cannibalism, and the different cases of cannibalism.

Psychopathy is a disease of the mind, in which the psychological state of someone has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric evaluation. Psychopaths have no concern for the feelings of others and a complete disregard of any sense of social obligation. Psychopaths are characterized by lack of empathy, poor impulse control and manipulative behaviors. They use charm, manipulation, intimidation, and the use of severe to mild violence to satisfy their own needs.

In particular, the author allegorically refers to a story in which Yi Ya boiled his own son as a sacrifice to Jie Zhou (Laws 42). Lu asserts that the culture of controlling the society from free expression of ideas was incarnated in the Chinese mythology in which he uses the novel to reveal that cannibalism started from when Pan Gu separated the sky from the earth down to YI Ya’s sacrifice, to XU Xilin and down to the man who was killed in Wolf Cub Village, where the locals ate the liver and heart of the individual in order to attain an esoteric heightened level of awareness and courage (Laws 42). Though the events used to interpret cannibalism remain specific to just the person killed at Wolf Cub Village, none could confirm the story except one young man. The madman, in this context, exaggerates cannibalism out of proportion. However, the protagonist points out that the government executions in the local village are a source of cannibalism in the story and the society. Execution of human life is a criminal offense unless someone is guilty beyond reproach, yet, in China, the government at Lu’s time used excessive power to control society through intimidating actions. The narrator is afraid of becoming the next target of cannibalism because of being labeled as a madman. The first section of the book terminates when the narrator insists that the cannibalism state in China

Lu Xun’s 1918 short story, Diary of a Madman, presents diary entries from a man who is being consumed by his own paranoia. Suddenly aware of the moon’s vibrancy and the strange reactions from those around him, including a dog, the madman starts to feel certain that all the town’s people are plotting to eat him. As the story progresses, the madman keeps seeing and hearing different things that lead him to believe that even his brother is in on this feast that’s supposed to happen, with him being the main course. The short story is centered around the idea of cannibalism and how the madman in reacting to it upon discovering that it is something that suddenly he must be aware of. Although the story is being based off a diary from the main character, there is a relation between the entries, the social issues that are happening in China at the time, and how Xun, the Chinese author, feels about them.