The world is filled with mysteries some yet to be solved. This is my take on those mysteries, this includes crypteds (beasts like big foot, Nessie, the yeti and others like that,) life, death, and people with special abilutes/powers. I will be writing shorts on the crypteds first and how they came be. These stories are fake so when I come to the life and death parts please do not give a religious comment as they will be deleted without hesitation by my discretion so keep that in mind when commenting or reviewing.
This one is kinda short as the information on the Wendigos is so little yet I have been asked to so I will. Please be prepared as this one is gonna be more so lore than anything else because I honestly had trouble finding this information. Enjoy and have fun reading.
The Wendigos come from the spirit world to possess those who have committed the greatest taboo of all cannibalism. Areas that Wendigo are sighted at are commonly the great lakes and Canadian mountains near the great lakes. Those who are possessed will have an insatiable hunger for human flesh.
Possessed people will be topped with a stag skull head, sunken eyes, and skin stretched impossibly tight over its bones. The creature will emit a stench of death and corruption around it to increase the Wendigo population. As time goes on the Wendigo becomes stronger the more it walks the earth giving it the ability to summon predators to hunt out its next source of food.
Wendigo are never satisfied no matter how much they eat. They can even spread their infection by spreading out a small parasite into any animal in their territory. Anyone who is infected by the parasite will have the insatiable urge to eat human flesh and never get full.
I'm ending it here as I'm just gonna post a link at the bottom copy and paste it into the search bar at the top. It will have random facts about the Wendigo and I couldn't really think of anything that wouldn't be facts as the creature has a lot of different lore abilities and other things so it's kinda just impossible for me right now. That's all and I hope you enjoyed.
https://m.ranker.com/list/wendigo-facts/lyra-radfo...
This is the link please go there for more Wendigo facts and I also used some information from there so that's also my reference as well.
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The Wendigo might be made up in the concept that it is a figure yet unproven but discussed frequently in lore, they are not cryptids. They are not actually animal in Native belief, but instead the incarnation of evil that represents greed, instead of any one thing.
This piece completely strips the Wendigo of its cultural context; the Wendigo is, at its heart, a Native belief that has been spread beyond the regional tribe confines, and it is impossible to understand the Wendigo without fully taking in the religious context in which it resides. Without looking at context for any cryptid, pieces describing them will fall flat.
Cannibalism is considered a very terrible form of greed in Native communities— somebody so depraved, they will consume human flesh despite the bounty of the Earth around them. But this isn't the only time the Wendigo is said to appear; for example, the Mohawk believe that people possessed with unsatisfiable greed suffer from Owistah, best translated as Wendigo Psychosis. Many loggers and oil barons have been accused of suffering from it, even though they are not cannibals.
The greed angle is important when you consider Native peoples rely on sustainability, and the Wendigo is, by its nature, unsustainable. This analysis is missing from the piece, which renders it factually incompatible with the actuality of the Wendigo.
It would appear research was done specifically to exclude Native sources, which puzzles me; why would you ignore the primary source for something you research? Just because a source treats the Wendigo as real does not render it inaccurate.
All in all, the factual inaccuracies of this piece render it exceptionally weak. In the future, focus more on primary sources for cryptids, and be wary of sensational pop culture lists.
Let me know if you have any questions or comments.
~ Rosey
Hailo, Spartan118!
This was an interesting short. I heard about Wendigos, but I haven't gone in depth with them and didn't realize they possessed cannibalistic people.
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There are very few comma errors, and you repeated "insatiable hunger for human flesh" twice, and I believe you could've reworded it so not sound a bit repetitive.
I do recommend using a separator of some sort so readers know when your disclaimer/warning ends and when your factual listing begins.
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I can see these facts could be turned into a short story, where it speaks either from the Wendigo or human point of view as the Wendigo possesses the human & releases the parasites. Imagery can be applied to this short story to further allow the reader to "see" this Wendigo, but that's just a suggestion.
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Other than this, I'll probably add the Wendigo to my fantasy animals to include in my own short stories, thank you for the comprehensible info! Groot joob!