Definition of manitou
: a supernatural force that according to an Algonquian conception pervades the natural world
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Straub actually does something like that in Ghost Story—the monster, the manitou figure in Ghost Story, is another kind of a mirror, another kind of reflector.
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Origin and Etymology of manitou
Ojibwa manito·
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