The Windigo

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The Windigo is a spirit believed to exist by the Cree, Ojibwa and Sioux. It is often seen as a manifestation of a fearsome two-legged creature with black frost-bitten lips or by possessing other people. The traits of the possession are cannibalism! While traveling the area around Kenora, in Northern Ontario, British explorer David Thompson - an explorer from the late 18th Century - recounts a story where a tribe learned that one hunter wanted to...

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