Native American Myths
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The Windigo
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- The Wendigo was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tautly over its bones. 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. What lips it had were tattered and bloody. Its body was unclean and suffering from suppuration of the flesh, giving off a strange and eerie odor of decay and decomposition, of death and corruption.
- This creature may appear as a monster with some characteristics of a human, or as a spirit who has possessed a human being and made them become monstrous.associated with cannibalism, murder, insatiable greed, and the cultural taboos against such behaviors. Windigo -“the evil spirit that devours mankind”.
- people who have seen described them as giants, many times larger than human beings.
- common to all these cultures is the view that the wendigo is a malevolent, cannibalistic, supernatural being that is strongly associated with winter, the north, coldness, famine, and starvation.
- “It was a large creature, as tall as a tree, with a lipless mouth and jagged teeth. Its breath was a strange hiss, its footprints full of blood, and it ate any man, woman or child who ventured into its territory. And those were the lucky ones. Sometimes, the Wendigo chose to possess a person instead, and then the luckless individual became a Wendigo himself, hunting down those he had once loved and feasting upon their flesh.”
- A Wendigo allegedly made a number of appearances near a town called Rosesu in Northern Minnesota from the late 1800s through the 1920s. Each time that it was reported, an unexpected death followed and finally, it was seen no more.
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