windigo

noun

win·​di·​go

ˈwində̇ˌgō

variants or less commonly wendigo

ˈwen-

plural -s

: 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

Word History

Etymology

Ojibwa

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