Windigo vs Skinwalker - What's the difference?
windigo | skinwalker |
(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
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.
A person, in certain Native American mythologies, who can transform into any animal when wearing its pelt.
As nouns the difference between windigo and skinwalker
is that 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 while skinwalker is a person, in certain Native American mythologies, who can transform into any animal when wearing its pelt.windigo
English
(wikipedia windigo)Alternative forms
* wendigo * wiindigoo * windago, windigaNoun
- Once there, however, I found no signs indicating the way John and the wendigo might have gone.