Winona´s Web

by Pricilla Cogan
Have been reading a book I found on the library. It is a trilogy but I only have the first book.

It is about a woman Meggie, that moved back to the countryhouse her grandmother once lived in. She workes as a psychiatrist in a nearby town.

One day she recieves a new patient, Winona, who is a sioux medicinwoman and pipebearer.

Winona says she shall die in two months time. Her daughter is frustrated. Now…. in therapy session, the roles turns. Winona takes over and starts to teach Meggie. The spirits wants that, so Winona has to stay a bit longer.

Winona teaches Meggie about being a native medicinwoman.

They also discuss a lot of things. This is Wionas thoughts about Jesus:
“She loves the story of Jesus birth but says it is a pitty that so much of the story is lost. They go from the child who KNOWS, to the adult man that has rediscovered what he had forgot.
He have learned to listen to the answers of his prayers. Most of us is stuck in the middle without any story that can help us. People goes to church and gets answers without having asked the questions. Yes, they can ask with the head, but the questions does not come from the heart.”

Once Winona asked the spirits in the sweetlodge about Jesus. They answered that Jesus was Gods son and was sent to the white man because the whites feared death so much.


This book was good to me right now. As I am a bit depressed and “out of purpose”, this is a book where Meggie is given, unknowingly at first, a new purpose with her life. Will I have a purpose? Or is eating and sleeping what will keep me alive. Just alive, not living.