DCHP-3

huldowokit

[< Tsimshian]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n. — Pacific Coast

a conjurer of evil spirits; also, the evil spirit conjured.

Quotations

1926
"I can get rid of the huldowget in the young woman." Ibid. 113: When the Indians think funny things are being done that they don't know the reason for--and perhaps it's a bad spirit or something--why they just say "It" instead of saying it's a bad spirit or a "huldowget."
1958
Redcoats embarked in war canoes and arrived at Kitammax--the measles had subsided. Meanwhile, there was an Indian to whom we will refer as Huldowokit, a dreaded word, which does not mean a medicine man but means a witch doctor or craft killer, a sender of bad thoughts or strong evil mental power.