Wendigo

In the mythology of the North American Algonquin Indians, the spirit of winter hunger and cold. It feeds on people.

He looks like a tall man in a cape of white matted wool, very skinny, sometimes without the tips of his ears, several fingers, nose or lips. Either completely bald, or very, very shaggy.

It can reproduce any sounds, and its whistle has a hypnotic power, luring a person into a trap. Able to control weather and atmospheric phenomena.

How and where it comes from, no one knows for sure. However, there are several versions:​‌‌​‌‌​ ​‌​‌‌‌‌ ​​​‌​‌ ​​‌​‌​ ​​‌​‌‌ ​‌​​​‌ ​​‌‌​​ ​​‌​​​ ​‌​​​‌ ​​‌‌‌​ ​​‌​‌​ ​‌​​​‌ ​​‌​‌‌ ​​‌‌‌‌ ​‌​​‌‌ ​‌​‌​‌​ ​‌‌​‌‌​ ​‌‌‌​‌‌ ​​‌‌‌‌

1. Heroic — in order to avert the threat from the native tribe in a difficult time of trials, the strongest warrior of the tribe sacrifices his soul to the spirits of the forest. So he turns into a creepy monster capable of intimidating any enemy. When the threat to the tribe is eliminated, the monster warrior goes into the deepest thicket, where his heart turns into an ice stone - a man becomes a wendigo.

2. Magical — it is said that the shaman or sorcerer who is excessively addicted to black, harmful magic turns into a wendigo. Some, however, stipulate that for the actual transformation into The Wendigo has a small but very important condition — the sorcerer will not become a monster until he tastes human flesh. It seems that for those who are purposefully looking for such a metamorphosis, this is not the biggest test.​‌‌​‌‌​ Gradually, it becomes more and more ugly, until it turns into a kind of European nosferatu. Angular, tall, skinny and toothy, he wanders through the woods in the hope of devouring some traveler or hunter.

Similarly, the ogre spirit from the mythology of the same North American tribe of Algonquins is also called.

Among the Algonquins, there is a "Wendigo syndrome", when the most ordinary person suddenly begins to feel a craving for eating human flesh.