Wendigo vs Zombie - What's the difference?
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* 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 snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere.
(voodoo, superstition) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own.
(fiction) A deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living.
(figuratively) An apathetic person.
(figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
(computing) A process or task which has terminated but was not removed from the list of processes, typically because it has child processes that have not yet terminated.
(computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
* 1976 , CX:ii, pages
(Canada, historical, derogatory) A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.The Canadian Encyclopedia , 2nd edition, Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton Canada, 1988. See "National Resources Mobilization Act," p. 1433.
* 1944 , "
(philosophy) A hypothetical person who lacks self awareness.
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As nouns the difference between wendigo and zombie
is that wendigo is an alternative spelling of lang=en while zombie is a snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere.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.
Anagrams
*zombie
English
(wikipedia zombie)Noun
(zombies)- I shot a zombie'''. He was a '''zombie , Kenneth. The pilot was bitten before he picked us up!
- After working for 18 hours on the computer, I was a zombie .
EE Times , "Beware 'zombie' clauses," 2 Aug., 2004
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- The maitre d’ introduced us and I had a zombie' with him. Those ' zombies are wicked.
- I watched Mario and drank zombies out of a thermos.
Time for Decision," Time (US edition), 6 Nov.,
- Had the time come to order Canada's home defense draftees—some 70,000 zombies idling at home—to battle overseas?
