It is everything that was negative about the person’s life; pain, fear, anger, disappointment, dissatisfaction, resentment, and rejection as the "residue that man has been unable to bring into universal harmony".
After death, the deceased's name is never spoken, for fear that the chindi will hear and come and make one ill.
Traditional Navajo practice is to allow death to occur outdoors, to allow the chindi to disperse.
If a person dies in a house or hogan, that building is believed to be inhabited by the chindi and is abandoned.
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