What is the pumpko?
Pibloclo or Pibloktoq is a psychiatric syndrome that was first described by explorers in the Arctic regions of the world. Since then, it has been widely covered and can even be found in psychiatric texts, with theories that explain it from the toxicity of vitamin and after harsh weather. However, the research of Canadian indigenous and Inuit populations emphasized by Canadian journalist Sarah Efron suggested that the pibliklo could actually be the invention of explorers, not real syndrome. The psychiatric community is often updated slowly and there is a certain dispute over the truth of the PIBLOCKO reports. Some people also described situations in which people ate objects that were not normally considered food, including feces. Explorers asked a native that would use the word to describe the syndrome, and wrote a "piboctoq" or "pibocto", but according to Efron, these words seem to be wrong or confusion because they seem to exist.
It was common for European explorers Mishear native words or missed them. At a time when spelling of English words were still wildly inconsistent, people who try to rewrite words in foreign languages often came up with some very creative variations. There are a few words of inuit similar to "pumplocks" that describe different states of mental distress, and it is possible that these words were used and explorers did not understand them.
Some Canadian historians who examined the pumpkuto have suggested that what the explorers considered "madness" could be a stress reaction. European explorers significantly emphasized communities in which they interact with with, especially when they took members of their native population to use them as guides and assistants. It is possible that the behavior that some explorers observed and reported was truly aberrant, but it was less common with the hard conditions of the Arctic than the conditions they encounter among the groups of explorers.
, referred to as “ARKTIic madness ”or" Arctic hysteria "could be well sensational with some explorers, because many adventurers needed to recover the cost of expeditions with books, lectures and similar activities. As soon as the concept entered the canon, it turned out that it was difficult to relax, and a handful of unofficial messages were reinforced.