orenda

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A mystical power thought to pervade all things

In the Handbook of American Indians, Alice Fletcher describes the Iroquois conception of orenda as a fictive force, principle, or magic power.

[Coined in English as expected Huron form of Mohawk] Invisible magic power believed by the Iroquois to pervade all natural objects as a spiritual energy
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