Wendigo
From the Algonquin tribes, the Wendigo is a spirit of hunger and evil, formerly a human. Those people who practice cannibalism are at the greatest risk of becoming one, and will then be condemned to seek and devour the flesh of humans, starting with their loved ones.
Here is a traditional description compiled by Basil Johnson, historian and scholar:
"The Weendigo 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 Weendigo looked like a gaunt skeleton recently disinterred from the grave. What lips it had were tattered and bloody [....] Unclean and suffering from suppurations of the flesh, the Weendigo gave off a strange and eerie odor of decay and decomposition, of death and corruption."
A giant ice skeleton! Now, most modern people make them into werewolves or bear things or (as you see above) deer-headed monsters. Why hasn't anybody made the traditional Wendigo? Whyyyyyyyyyyy?
Wendigo
From the Algonquin tribes, the Wendigo is a spirit of hunger and evil, formerly a human. Those people who practice cannibalism are at the greatest risk of becoming one, and will then be condemned to seek and devour the flesh of humans, starting with their loved ones.
Here is a traditional description compiled by Basil Johnson, historian and scholar:
"The Weendigo 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 Weendigo looked like a gaunt skeleton recently disinterred from the grave. What lips it had were tattered and bloody [....] Unclean and suffering from suppurations of the flesh, the Weendigo gave off a strange and eerie odor of decay and decomposition, of death and corruption."
A giant ice skeleton! Now, most modern people make them into werewolves or bear things or (as you see above) deer-headed monsters. Why hasn't anybody made the traditional Wendigo? Whyyyyyyyyyyy?