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Wendigo vs Windigo - What's the difference?

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Windigo is a alternative form of wendigo.



As nouns the difference between wendigo and windigo

is that wendigo is an alternative spelling of lang=en while windigo is a malevolent, violent, cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which inhabits the body of a living person and possesses him or her to commit murder.

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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    windigo

    English

    (wikipedia windigo)

    Alternative forms

    * wendigo * wiindigoo * windago, windiga

    Noun

  • (mythology) A malevolent, violent, cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which inhabits the body of a living person and possesses him or her to commit murder.
  • *2004 : Michael Jensen, Firelands
    • Once there, however, I found no signs indicating the way John and the wendigo might have gone.
  • A psychological condition specific to some Native American groups, in which a person (in fever-induced delusions) believes that he or she is possessed by a cannibalistic wendigo spirit, or in which society hysterically believes a person to be so possessed.
  • *1985 : Ronald C. Simons, Charles Campbell Hughes, ''Culture-Bound Syndromes: Folk Illnesses of Psychiatric and Anthropological Interest
  • *:“Windigo psychosis” has been the most celebrated culture trait of the Northern Algonkian peoples for almost half a century.

    • Synonyms

    * (derived from Cree) wihtikow, witiko, wetiko, witigo