Dreamcatcher

The Dream Catcher (English dreamcatcher ) is an Indian cult object. It basically consists of a network in a wicker tire which is still decorated with personal and sacred objects. The dream catcher is, according to the faith, improve sleep. It is assumed that the good dreams went through the net, remained poor caught in the net and would later neutralized by the morning sun.

Origin

The dream catcher comes from the Ojibwe culture ( Chippewa ) ( Ojibwe asabikeshiinh, a word form for " spider " or bawaajige nagwaagan in the meaning " dream case "). He was taken only during the Pan - Indian Movement in the 1960s and 1970s of other indigenous peoples of North America.

Installation and use of dream catcher

The "classic" Dream Catcher sometimes consists of a wooden, circular hoop of willow, in a braid is incorporated consisting of a gut string or sinew thread. It may also consist of other materials. Leather, beads, feathers, horse hair and some other materials to decorate the whole. Legend has it that this network was initially referred to as spider web.

According to the Indians of the dream catcher (for example, the bed or the Tipi ) suspended over the resting place to improve sleep: while the bad dreams get caught in the net and are subsequently neutralized by the morning sun, slip the good dreams through the net and may disappear through the central hole. Application and interpretation vary according to legend.

However, the bad dreams in the legend of the Lakota escape through the hole in the middle, and the good dreams remain in the network.