Wendigo Essay

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The Wendigo, a relative of Bigfoot is depicted as a skinny, 15 foot tall, glowing eyed wolf-like creature. Native American version of the creature spoke of a gigantic spirit over 15 foot tall, creature that once was human. The wendigo was not only a physical being but a spiritual one. The Wendigo a spirit or not was seen in Canada and northern U.S where it was actually hunted. The Wendigo were deadly but still hunted by Wendigo hunters. The Wendigo is a beast are actually human that were transformed and some who didn’t truly become a wendigo but got Wendigo Psychosis.


The Wendigo's appearance is a gigantic tall creature with , owl-like eyes and, is skinny creature. The Wendigo is fifteen foot tall beast who was once a human being (Taylor).This strange being is said to live alone in the forest with glowing owl-like eyes (Animal Planet). A Wendigo a spiritual …show more content…

While the legend of the Sprit is common in tribes like the Ojibre, Cree, Saultease, and Nasupk tribes (Supernatural Magazines). The Wendigo(Wetigo) was a spiritual creature among tribes that turns people in a savage that craves human flesh (Smallman). The Algonquian tribes called the Wendigo the "spirit of the lonely place" (Smallman). This spirit or creature dates back to the 1700s-1900s(Animal …show more content…

In most common myths a Manitou would drive someone to cannibalism making them into a Wendigo (Supernatural Magazines). Cannibalism has always been one of the great sins of Naïve Americans and whoever committed this ordeal would be corrupted and transformed into a Wendigo (Murphy). Also eating human flesh a way to become a Wendigo, one could be driven mad by a Wendigo's gaze, and breath (Supernatural Magazines). After some people who claimed to be Wendigo's were examined doctors found a

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