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  • noun Plural form of manitou.

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Examples

  • I also liked the folklore and mythology behind the manitous.

    De Lint's Novella Doesn't Pack As Much Punch as A Full-Length Novel Stephanie 2009

  • I also liked the folklore and mythology behind the manitous.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Stephanie 2009

  • Canadian rock art interested us because of a traditional Algonkian Indian belief that manitous – spirits – lived inside rocks and cliff-faces, and that shamans in trance could enter the rock surfaces and meet with them in order to exchange tobacco offerings for supernatural power, usually referred to as “rock medicine”.

    Boing Boing: January 23, 2005 - January 29, 2005 Archives 2005

  • If they were a part of whatever was going on, it made sense that, for whatever their reasons were, the manitous had brought Sara and him into their own realm.

    Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

  • Sara came from a land as strange as any manitous '.

    Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

  • The strange beings with their drums-they were what Tom called manitous.

    Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

  • He jerked his head up to stare at the strange beings, but the manitous paid him no mind.

    Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

  • The quin'on'a were the first to go, but the others followed-the manitous, the little mysteries, the honochento'keh-until Grandmother Toad's something-inmovement lay thin in the forests of the World Beyond.

    Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

  • Mostly the manitous are curious, but be wary in your dealings with them, Kier, should the occasion arise.

    Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

  • The original inhabitants of this land called them manitous-the little mysteries.

    Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

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