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Redfern tells of a w------ trial in 1879
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frameacloudContent warnings: Redfern's article describes cannibalism in medium detail. Some unrelated fantasy artwork included with the article shows gore.
October: Cryptozoologist Nick Redfern wrote an article about a w------ trial that happened in Canada in 1879. A Cree man named Swift Runner confessed that he had survived a bad winter by eating the bodies of his family. Swift Runner said this happened to him because he was possessed by a dangerous type of entity called a w------. Swift Runner was executed for cannibalism.
In Algonquin mythology, w------ are cannibal entities associated with cold winters. They possess people and turn them into w------. Sometimes people who know those stories believe they possessed by w------. People of European background think that problem is a culture-bound syndrome, and call it "w------ psychosis."
[Edited 2023-02-23 to censor the word for the unnameable being from Algonquin folklore and mythology, because I have since learned that the word for it not supposed to be spoken.]
October: Cryptozoologist Nick Redfern wrote an article about a w------ trial that happened in Canada in 1879. A Cree man named Swift Runner confessed that he had survived a bad winter by eating the bodies of his family. Swift Runner said this happened to him because he was possessed by a dangerous type of entity called a w------. Swift Runner was executed for cannibalism.
In Algonquin mythology, w------ are cannibal entities associated with cold winters. They possess people and turn them into w------. Sometimes people who know those stories believe they possessed by w------. People of European background think that problem is a culture-bound syndrome, and call it "w------ psychosis."
[Edited 2023-02-23 to censor the word for the unnameable being from Algonquin folklore and mythology, because I have since learned that the word for it not supposed to be spoken.]
