Words at Play : Monster of the Day
"Although it is ten years since the Wendigo has been observed—when he trudged through the eight-feet deep rapids of the Echoing river, which only reached to his knees there have been evidences that he still seeks human flesh after his winter's hibernation." The Winnipeg Tribune, January 31, 1947
Definition:
: a cannibalistic creature of Algonquian mythology believed to have been a lost hunter forced by hunger to eat human flesh and thereafter to have become a crazed man-eating ogre roaming the forest
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