Wendigo vs Skinwalker - What's the difference?
wendigo | skinwalker |
* 1905 : Ernest Thompson Seton, Woodmyth & Fable
*2003 : Sidney Harring (edited by Louis A. Knafla), The Wendigo Killings: The Legal Penetration of Canadian Law into the Spirit World of the Ojibwa and Cree Indians'' (in ''Violent Crime in North America , 19th edition)
*2004 : Michael Jensen, Firelands
A person, in certain Native American mythologies, who can transform into any animal when wearing its pelt.
As nouns the difference between skinwalker and wendigo
is that skinwalker is a person, in certain Native American mythologies, who can transform into any animal when wearing its pelt while wendigo is an alternative spelling of lang=en.wendigo
English
Noun
- [N]''o man can meet with the Wendigo''', / No man can face him or see him; / Only his track in the snow is seen, / And lost is the hunter that sees it.''...'' The heart that ne'er quailed on the war-path / Turns to stone at the name of the ' Wendigo .
- Machekequonabe, an Ojibwa, was found guilty of manslaughter in an 1896 trial for killing a “wendigo',” an evil spirit clothed in human flesh.''...'' There is an extensive anthropological literature on the '''wendigo''' and on '''wendigo''' killings in Native Canada. The '''wendigo'' ... were cannibal spirits that could inhabit the bodies of living people, causing them to kill even members of their family.
- Once there, however, I found no signs indicating the way John and the wendigo might have gone.