The Dance of the Wild Man

We went to a potlatch in northern, on northern vancouver island about a year ago. It was the qaquaka natives and they had this interesting dance that was the dance of the wild man. The young man sometimes has fits of fury and easily loses consciousness, hides in the forest,. throws himself into water and fire and cuts himselves with knives. And so he was the person who'd been in the bush too long. And he came in as a cannibal. There there were genuine cannibalistic rights among these people not so long ago. But it was also interesting in relationship to the shamanic tradition because he came inAs a wild man, wrighting, he had to be...