Wendigo:The Flesh eating monster of Native American Legend

This Cannibal monster hunts during the coldest time of the year, travelling with the snow to terrorise humans with its insatiable hunger. Armed with sharp claws and teeth and capable of running with incredible speed, the Wendigo is a lesson in excess and a manifestation of the anxieties that emerge in the harsh realities of Winter - And how to survive it.

The Wendigo is a mythological creature or evil spirit from the folkloreof the First Nations Algoquian tribes based in the northern forests of Nova Scotia, the East Coast of Canada and Great Lakes Region of Canada and the United States. The wendigo is described as a monster with some characteristics of a human or as a spirit who has possessed a human being and made them become monstrous. Its influence is said to invoke acts of murder, insatiable greed,cannibalism and cultural taboos against such behaviours.
The Wendigo was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tightly 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 ... 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.
By Basil.H. Johnston.

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