Unclean and suffering from suppuration of the flesh, the Wendigo gave off a strange and eerie odor of decay and decomposition, of death and corruption. What lips it had were tattered and bloody. With its bones pushing out against its skin, its complexion the ash-gray of death, and its eyes pushed back deep into their sockets, the Wendigo looked like a gaunt skeleton recently disinterred from the grave.
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The Wendigo was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tightly over its bones. Johnston, an Ojibwe teacher and scholar from Ontario, gives a description of a wendigo: They were strongly associated with winter, the north, coldness, famine, and starvation. Although descriptions can vary somewhat, common to all these cultures is the view that the wendigo is a malevolent, cannibalistic, supernatural being. The wendigo is part of the traditional belief system of a number of Algonquin-speaking peoples, including the Ojibwe, the Saulteaux, the Cree, the Naskapi, and the Innu. Folklore Description Artist depiction of a wendigo as described in Algonquian tradition
It too is cannibalistic however, it is characterized as enlightened with ancestral insights. The Wechuge is a similar being that appears in the legends of the Athabaskan people of the Northwest Pacific Coast. The Proto-Algonquian term has been reconstructed as * wi Other transliterations include Wiindigoo, Weendigo, Windego, Wiindgoo, Windgo, Windago, Windiga, Wendego, Windagoo, Widjigo, Wiijigoo, Wijigo, Weejigo, Wìdjigò, Wintigo, Wentigo, Wehndigo, Wentiko, Windgoe, Wītikō, and Wintsigo.Ī plural form windigoag is also spelled windegoag, wiindigooag, or windikouk. In the Cree language it is wīhtikow, also transliterated wetiko. The source of the English word is the Ojibwe word wiindigoo. The word appears in many Native American languages, and has many alternative translations. In some First Nations communities other symptoms such as insatiable greed and destruction of the environment are also thought to be symptoms of Wendigo psychosis. Wendigo psychosis is described as a culture-bound syndrome. In modern psychiatry the wendigo lends its name to a form of psychosis known as "Wendigo psychosis", which is characterized by symptoms such as an intense craving for human flesh and an intense fear of becoming a cannibal. Possibly because of longtime identification by European-Americans with their own myths about werewolves, for example as mentioned in The Jesuit Relations below, Hollywood film representations often label human/beast hybrids featuring antlers or horns with the "wendigo" name, but such animal features do not appear in the original indigenous stories. In some representations the wendigo is described as a giant humanoid with a heart of ice a foul stench or sudden, unseasonable chill might precede its approach. The wendigo is said to invoke feelings of insatiable greed/hunger, the desire to cannibalize other humans, and the propensity to commit murder in those that fall under its influence.
The wendigo is often said to be a malevolent spirit, sometimes depicted as a creature with human-like characteristics, which possesses human beings. It is based in and around the East Coast forests of Canada, the Great Plains region of the United States, and the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, grouped in modern ethnology as speakers of Algonquian-family languages. Wendigo ( / ˈ w ɛ n d ɪ ɡ oʊ/) is a mythological creature or evil spirit originating from the folklore of Plains and Great Lakes Natives as well as some First Nations. For other uses, see Windigo (disambiguation).
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