The wendigo is often depicted as an emaciated figure with ashen flesh, towering up to 15 feet tall. Some legends describe it as a giant creature that grows larger with consumption. It features sunken or glowing eyes, sharp yellowed fangs, and chewed lips, often lacking hair or possessing fur, with pointed ears and antler-like horns. Its foul odor resembles rotting flesh. Believed to possess acute senses, the wendigo thrives in the cold woodlands of Canada and the northern U.S. Shamanic rituals may subdue it, with legends suggesting its heart must be burned for true destruction. It is also considered an evil spirit that can possess the greedy.
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Description/Appearance
Some legends say the wendigo is an emaciated figure with ashen flesh. Others describe it as a giant creature up to 15 feet (4.5 meters) tall or as a beast that grows larger the more it eats. It may have sunken or glowing eyes and sharp yellowed fangs and claws. Its lips are chewed or entirely missing because it has eaten them. It may be hairless or have fur, and it may have pointed ears and horns or antlers like a deer. It smells of rotting flesh and is usually first detected by humans by its horrible odor.
Wendigos are believed to have exceptionally sharp eyesight, hearing, and sense of smell as well as superior strength and speed in order to stalk and overpower their victims. They live in colder climates among the woodlands and lakes of Canada and the northern United States. They can move easily through deep snow and across ice.
A shaman may be the only person who can subdue and destroy a wendigo, using either a silver, steel, or iron bullet or a dagger. Some legends, however, claim the wendigo’s heart must be cut out and melted or burned in a fire before its spirit is truly vanquished. The wendigo is sometimes described as a spirit rather than a physical presence.
In Cree mythology, for example, the wendigo is believed to be an evil spirit that possesses humans. The spirit enters a person by biting him or her or through a dream. The possessed person becomes cannibalistic or otherwise deranged or violent. Some people are believed to be more susceptible to becoming possessed by a wendigo, including those who are greedy or gluttonous as well as those who are suffering from hunger or starvation. A colloquial phrase for this experience is “going wendigo.”
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