windigo
noun
win·di·go
ˈwində̇ˌgō
variants
or less commonly wendigo
ˈwen-
plural -s
: a cannibalistic creature of Algonquian mythology believed to have been a lost hunter forced by hunger to eat human flesh and thereafter to have become a crazed man-eating ogre roaming the forest
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