Deadly Cannibals: The Eerie Mystery of the Wendigo
The Wendigo is a mythical monster in Algonquin folklore. It’s considered to be that of a man-eating creature and an evil spirit known to the northern forests of the Atlantic Coast and other parts of the United States and even Canada. The wendigo may appear as a vicious monster with some characteristics of a human and is also known to be a creature whose spirit has possessed a human being and made them become disturbing and unpredictable. It is usually connected to and associated with murder, greed, and other known evil notions. The legend of the Wendigo comes from a controversial modern medical term known as Wendigo psychosis, described by psychiatrists as a syndrome with symptoms such as an intense craving for human flesh and fear of becoming a cannibal.
There are well over two dozen different types of spellings for the Wendigo. Many of these come from several different Native American Algonquin tribes. In most cases and incidents, the Wendigo is known for being cannibalistic, evil and supernatural. They are also associated with winter and famine. In some cases, humans are known to be overpowered by greed and could turn into wendigos. It is also said that Humans could also turn into wendigos just simply by being in contact with them or around them for too long.
It’s suggested that Native Americans understand the wendigo. The Wendigo can take over a person with an idea of corruptive and disturbing behavior, greed or even consumption. This idea states that a person of evil intentions or who favor certain sins are prone to becoming taken over or influenced by wendigos. Wendigos are known to be violent and aggressive by their nature. They also have the instinct to kill and are known to be cannibals. In popular culture, the Wendigo has appeared all over. It has appeared in several fiction books even having some fictional books solely written for it. They have appeared in comics and graphic novels as well as movies and television shows.
While the wendigo is known from myth and in popular culture there is still a mystery behind the creature that gives off its evil eerie presence. Wendigos don’t just appear as stated above it takes a person thinking evil self-absorbed thoughts and having ill intent in order for them to appear or take over. Yet even this idea and they're having some notoriety, they still have a mysterious aura about them. Wendigos tendencies are enough to scare or frighten a person, however, they are also known to have a foul smell to them and they look like beasts with their bones using showing and having blood on them. Wendigos could be characterized as several personifications of evil and their presence is of the darkest intent.
Adding to popular culture, one of the poems in my horror poetry book, The Macabre Masterpiece: Repressed Carnage, is called The Wendigo which is my take on the mythical creature.
The Wendigo
In the harsh winter climates
There lurks a suspicious creature
Half person/half beast
Imagine a skeletal moose-like bigfoot
That feasts on human flesh
It comes from an old Algonquin myth
Its said a human can transform into one
Or vice versa, either way it’s chilling
It’s a vicious spirit with malicious intent
Violent by nature, fueled by greed
With gluttonous tendencies
Its exterior is that of mainly bone
With skin that drapes like a canvas
Lips tarnished and bloody
Not to mention they smell horrid
An odor of death and decay
But most of all it wishes to feed
And feed it shall if one encounters it
Beware of the Wendigo
The treacherous famine walker
The beast of starvation
A cannibalistic being of death
