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Wendigo Is Your Worst Nightmare!

Once upon a time, there was a man. He was hunting in the forests of northern Canada. As fate predicated, he got lost into the wild. There was no food and cold and hunger drove him mad. He smelled a group of back backers in a certain part. This man's intense hunger drove him to cannibalism. After feasting on another human's flesh, he transformed into a crazed man-beast, roaming the forest in search of more people to eat. He became the Wendigo. Windigo, Witigo, Witiko, and Wee-Tee-Go are all names that roughly translate to "the wicked spirit that devours people."

The Algonquian, Ojibwe, Eastern Cree, Saulteaux, Westmain Swampy Cree, Naskapi, and Innu people have long known about this monster. They've been described as giants, many times the size of humans. The wendigo is a wicked, cannibalistic, supernatural monster strongly linked with winter, the north, coldness, famine, and starvation, according to all of these civilizations, although descriptions vary.

The wendigo is not the largest or most muscular beast in the world, despite being a voracious hunter. Despite his nearly 15-foot stature, his body is sometimes described as malnourished with its bones protruding from its skin, a deathly ash grey complexion, sharp claws, and owl-like eyes. The Wendigo appears to be a haggard skeleton lately exhumed from the dead, with its eyes forced back deep into the sockets.

As the wendigo is a cold-weather animal, most sightings have been reported in Canada and the colder northern states of the United States, such as Minnesota. These monsters are most commonly seen in the winter and have been accused by early Native Americans for causing severe famines. Interestingly, numerous stories link them to the north and freezing conditions. At the turn of the century, Algonquian tribes blamed wendigo attacks for a number of mysterious disappearances.

The wendigo, unlike other scary carnivores, does not pursue his victim in order to capture and consume it. Rather, one of his most disturbing characteristics is his ability to imitate human sounds. He employs this ability to draw people in and away from society. He attacks them and then feasts on them after they're stranded in the lonely depths of the forest.

He can turn the victims into wendigos once he has invaded their minds, instilling in them a similar need for human flesh. Swift Runner, a Native American man who murdered and ate his entire family during the winter of 1879, is one of the most well-known examples. Swift Runner claimed to be possessed by a "windigo spirit" at the time of the murders, according to Animal Planet. Despite this, he was sentenced to death for his crime.

According to mythology, escaping a Wendigo is practically difficult. Wendigos are hunters by nature and will let nothing stand in the way of their never-ending hunger. Even if you managed to avoid physical harm, the very knowledge that you'd met an otherworldly wendigo would leave you mentally drained.

Wendigos hibernate for months or years, but when they awaken, misfortune pities them. Due to their miraculous speed, endurance, and heightened senses, such as hearing so acute that they can pick up on terrified heartbeats from miles away, wendigos can track victims for long periods of time.

Without a doubt, this ability comes in useful in the woods. Wendigos play a cruel game once the pursuit begins. They entice their prey by releasing shrieks or growls, and may imitate human cries for rescue.

Don't let yourself be tricked into thinking you're safe inside. The wendigo has the ability to unlock doors and infiltrate homes, where it will kill and eat the residents before converting the cabins into wendigo hibernation dens.

When it comes to fighting a wendigo, some tales claim that fire is your finest weapon. It's vital to set their entire body on fire in some way. Of course, getting that near to a wendigo is so deadly that most individuals will never have the opportunity to verify this idea before being consumed.

The frozen heart of a wendigo is its major weakness. There are a variety of legends surrounding this, but the most prevalent one claims that breaking the beast's ice-cold heart will free – but also kill – the human trapped inside. You'll need to go near enough to the wendigo to stab it with a silver stick to pull this off. A silver bullet may possibly work, and some even claim that fire can thaw the frozen heart.

You've managed to stab a wendigo's heart with a silver stake or blade against all odds. Although the creature appears to be dead, if the legends are to be believed, you must go one step further to assure that the wendigo would not hunt you again. To begin, you must place the fractured wendigo heart within a silver box. After that, bury the box in a church cemetery. Use a silver-plated axe to chop off all of the wendigo's limbs and head before heading to the cemetery. Finally, salt the body, burn it to ash, and scatter the ashes with the wind.

Never loiter alone in unknown dark places! A wendigo might mimic your mom and call you home!