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Manitou

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Manitou
supreme deity of Algonquin and neighboring tribes. [Am. Indian Religion: Collier’s, X, 91]
See : God
Manitou 

the name given to a mysterious magical force and also to personal spirit-protectors.

According to the superstitions and customs of the North American Indians, each man—warrior and hunter—had to acquire a manitou by means of special ordeals and “visions.” Christian missionaries attempted to develop among the Indians faith in a heavenly god (“the great manitou”) on the basis of the manitou concepts; this was reflected in H. Longfellow’s narrative poem Song of Hiawatha.
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