Insects, Monsters and Spirits

• Published in: Recherches amérindiennes au Québec
• Main Author: Marie-Françoise Guédon
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Recherches amérindiennes au Québec 2018
• Subjects: Sciences Humaines et Sociales; Social Sciences and Humanities; Athapascans septentrionaux; dénés; insectes; taxonomie; chamanisme; Northern Athapaskan; Dene; insects; taxonomy; shamanism; Atabascanos septentrionales; insectos; taxonomía; chamanismo; General Medicine; anthro-se; phil; Géants; Athapascan*; Subarctic; subarctique*; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/raq/2017-v47-n2-3-raq03793/1048596ar.pdf; https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/raq/2017-v47-n2-3-raq03793/1048596ar.pdf; https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1048596ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/1048596ar; https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/raq/2017-v47-n2-3-raq03793/1048596ar/; https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2883789884

Northern Athapaskan people use the same terms, translated as “bug”, to designate insects, worms and snake-like animals, giant beings, night monsters, ghosts and spirits of various kinds and “bushmen or brushmen” (wild beings known throughout the subarctic forest). It is difficult to find a common gr...