Windigo

Culture Bound Syndrome (CBS) is defined by the DSM-IV as recurrent, locally specific patterns of deviant behavior and troubling experience that may or may not be linked to a particular DSM-IV diagnostic category. Such patterns of behavior are indigenously considered to be an "illness" or at least an affliction, and most have names specific to the region or culture in which they originate. Many CBSs are not literally syndromes; they are more like ways of explaining any of a wide array of misfortunes. In the following pages I will attempt to explain the CBS known as windigo. Over the course of the following pages I will attempt to describe the various types of windigo stemming from the folklore of the cannibalistic spirit.
In accordance with knowledge that has been collected relating to windigo, it seems that there are three different classifications of windigo. The first classification is that of an evil spirit that haunts the sub artic forests of eastern and......

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Title: Culture Bound Syndrome
Approximate Word Count: 1078
Approximate Pages: 5 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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