wendigo
Multiple Entries:wendigo windigo
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wendigo /ˈwɛndɪgəʊ/
▶noun variant spelling of windigo.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
windigo /ˈwɪndɪgəʊ/ (also wendigo)
▶noun (pl. windigos or windigoes) (in the folklore of the northern Algonquian Indians) a person transformed into a monster by eating human flesh.
– origin from Ojibwa wintiko.
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