Lexicographical Neighbors of Manitos
Literary usage of Manitos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Traditional Ojibwa Religion and Its Historical Changes by Christopher Vecsey (1983)
"OJIBWA RELATIONS WITH THE manitos The manitos were the objects of traditional
... The Ojibwa communities passed down their knowledge of the manitos through ..."
2. North American [mythology] by Hartley Burr Alexander (1916)
"THE manitos' "The definition of being is simply power," says a speaker in Plato's
Sophist; and this is a statement to which every American Indian would ..."
3. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 3/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"These qualities and attributes excited the bitter antagonism of the evil manitos
of the air, earth, and waters, who plotted to destroy these two brothers. ..."
4. A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan and Its People: Its Mining by Alvah Littlefield Sawyer (1911)
"In revenge Manabozho waged war against the manitos and sent a number of them ...
To appease his anger, the older manitos, who had not been concerned in the ..."
5. Myth, Ritual and Religion by Andrew Lang (1899)
"He waged a war against all the manitos. . . . He called on the dead body of ...
The manitos consulted what to do to assuage his melancholy and his wrath. ..."
6. Myth, Ritual and Religion by Andrew Lang (1901)
"He waged a war against all the manitos. . . . He called on the dead body of ...
The manitos consulted what to do to assuage his melancholy and his wrath. ..."
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