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Iroquoian magic power
Answer for the clue "Iroquoian magic power ", 6 letters:
orenda
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Orenda is an Iroquois name for a spiritual power inherent in people and their environment. Activities of nature were seen to be a "ceaseless struggle of one orenda against another, uttered and directed by the beings or bodies" in the environment. Orenda ...
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n. A mystical power thought to pervade all things.
Usage examples of orenda.
Many said he had much orenda, for there were strange lights and sounds here during a night, and no one would leave the long house, and in the morning his long house stands as you see it now.
The Oneida would have thought Joseph Wing possessed of much orenda after his sudden appearance, the principle of magic power that was inherent in every body or thing.