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Wendigo vs Wetiko - What's the difference?

wendigo | wetiko |

As nouns the difference between wendigo and wetiko

is that wendigo is an alternative spelling of lang=en while wetiko is alternative form of wihtikow.

wendigo

English

Noun

  • * 1905 : Ernest Thompson Seton, Woodmyth & Fable
  • [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 .
  • *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)
  • 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.
  • *2004 : Michael Jensen, Firelands
  • Once there, however, I found no signs indicating the way John and the wendigo might have gone.

    Anagrams

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    wetiko

    English

    Noun

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  • * 1994 , Ronald Lavallée (author), Patricia Claxton (translator), Tchipayuk, or, The way of the wolf , page 208:
  • Pennisk wasn't afraid of the wetiko .
  • * 2005 , Maggie Siggins, Bitter embrace: white society's assault on the Woodland Cree , page 141:
  • Just then a Wetiko charged into view!
  • * 2001 , Arturo J. Aldama, Disrupting Savagism
  • [Jack] Forbes states that the overriding characteristic of a wétiko , a Cree word literally meaning “cannibal,” is “that he consumes other human beings for profit, that is, he is a cannibal”

    References

    * Brightman, Robert A. (1988). "The Windigo in the Material World". Ethnohistory 35 (4): 337-379. * Goddard, Ives (1969). "Owls and Cannibals: Two Algonquian Etymologies". Paper presented at the Second Algonquian Conference, St. John's, Newfoundland .