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Part five. this one was quicker because i had it lying around unfinished. now the wikiattack!
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The wendigo (also known as windigo, weendigo, windago, waindigo, windiga, witiko, wihtikow, and numerous other variants) is a demonic creature appearing in the legends of the Algonquian peoples along the Atlantic Coast of the United States and Canada. The creature or spirit could either possess humans or be a monster that had physically transformed from a person. It is particularly associated with cannibalism. The Algonquian believed those who indulged in eating human flesh were at particular risk;the legend appears to have reinforced the practice of cannibalism as a taboo.

The legend lends its name to the disputed modern medical term wendigo psychosis. This is supposed to be a culture-bound disorder that features symptoms such as an intense craving for human flesh and a fear the sufferer is a cannibal. This condition was alleged to have occurred among Algonquian native cultures, but remains disputed.

The wendigo character now is a common creature found within modern horror fiction.

The wendigo is part of the traditional belief systems of various Algonquian-speaking tribes in the northern United States and Canada, most notably the Ojibwe and Saulteaux, the Cree, the Naskapi, and the Innu people.[5] Although descriptions varied somewhat, common to all these cultures was the conception of wendigos as malevolent, cannibalistic, supernatural beings (manitous) of great spiritual power.[6] They were strongly associated with the winter, the north, and coldness, as well as with famine and starvation.[7] Basil Johnston, an Ojibwe teacher and scholar from Ontario, gives one description of how wendigos were viewed:[8]

“ The Wendigo was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tautly over its bones. With its bones pushing out against its skin, its complexion the ash gray of death, and its eyes pushed back deep into their sockets, the Weendigo looked like a gaunt skeleton recently disinterred from the grave. What lips it had were tattered and bloody [....] Unclean and suffering from suppurations of the flesh, the Weendigo gave off a strange and eerie odor of decay and decomposition, of death and corruption. ”
At the same time, wendigos were embodiments of gluttony, greed, and excess: never satisfied after killing and consuming one person, they were constantly searching for new victims. In some traditions, humans who became overpowered by greed could turn into wendigos; the wendigo myth thus served as a method of encouraging cooperation and moderation.[9]

Among the Ojibwe, Eastern Cree, Westmain Swampy Cree, Naskapi, and Innu, wendigos were said to be giants, many times larger than human beings (a characteristic absent from the wendigo myth in the other Algonquian cultures).[10] Whenever a wendigo ate another person, it would grow in proportion to the meal it had just eaten, so that it could never be full.[11] Therefore, wendigos were portrayed as simultaneously, constantly gorging themselves and, emaciated from starvation.
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Yeah really wanted to mirror my last one. The manticore was crudeness hidden by intelligence, the wendigo is intelligence hidden by crudeness. Also, id like to tell you my view on what a wendigo is exactly.

I see t as a possessive force that controls an individual (or individuals) who are close to succumbing to cannibalism. Now as to why there's so many ways the wendigo is described is because it has multiple stages in the transformation. At first they seem like a normal human, albeit mad and starving Then their body begins to rot, leading to the more zombie like interpretations. Next they grow in size and grow longer hair, hence the bigfoot-esce wendigo's. finally you get this ten-foot tall mean motherlubber. But why do they change? Well several actually. The first being hunger, as the wendigo eats more, it wants more. So it adapts to hunt better. The thing is though, as long as the hunts going well and they get the food it needs, it doesn't need a reason to change. So the final form will only be reached if it is absolutely starving. It also takes several hundred years to mature, making them even rarer.

So that was a long blab.

Next 'im thinking something asian or greek. any suggestions?

EDIT: i just realized i forgot to color his axe's handle....FML

Description
Part five. this one was quicker because i had it lying around unfinished. now the wikiattack!
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The wendigo (also known as windigo, weendigo, windago, waindigo, windiga, witiko, wihtikow, and numerous other variants) is a demonic creature appearing in the legends of the Algonquian peoples along the Atlantic Coast of the United States and Canada. The creature or spirit could either possess humans or be a monster that had physically transformed from a person. It is particularly associated with cannibalism. The Algonquian believed those who indulged in eating human flesh were at particular risk;the legend appears to have reinforced the practice of cannibalism as a taboo.

The legend lends its name to the disputed modern medical term wendigo psychosis. This is supposed to be a culture-bound disorder that features symptoms such as an intense craving for human flesh and a fear the sufferer is a cannibal. This condition was alleged to have occurred among Algonquian native cultures, but remains disputed.

The wendigo character now is a common creature found within modern horror fiction.

The wendigo is part of the traditional belief systems of various Algonquian-speaking tribes in the northern United States and Canada, most notably the Ojibwe and Saulteaux, the Cree, the Naskapi, and the Innu people.[5] Although descriptions varied somewhat, common to all these cultures was the conception of wendigos as malevolent, cannibalistic, supernatural beings (manitous) of great spiritual power.[6] They were strongly associated with the winter, the north, and coldness, as well as with famine and starvation.[7] Basil Johnston, an Ojibwe teacher and scholar from Ontario, gives one description of how wendigos were viewed:[8]

“ The Wendigo was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tautly over its bones. With its bones pushing out against its skin, its complexion the ash gray of death, and its eyes pushed back deep into their sockets, the Weendigo looked like a gaunt skeleton recently disinterred from the grave. What lips it had were tattered and bloody [....] Unclean and suffering from suppurations of the flesh, the Weendigo gave off a strange and eerie odor of decay and decomposition, of death and corruption. ”
At the same time, wendigos were embodiments of gluttony, greed, and excess: never satisfied after killing and consuming one person, they were constantly searching for new victims. In some traditions, humans who became overpowered by greed could turn into wendigos; the wendigo myth thus served as a method of encouraging cooperation and moderation.[9]

Among the Ojibwe, Eastern Cree, Westmain Swampy Cree, Naskapi, and Innu, wendigos were said to be giants, many times larger than human beings (a characteristic absent from the wendigo myth in the other Algonquian cultures).[10] Whenever a wendigo ate another person, it would grow in proportion to the meal it had just eaten, so that it could never be full.[11] Therefore, wendigos were portrayed as simultaneously, constantly gorging themselves and, emaciated from starvation.
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Yeah really wanted to mirror my last one. The manticore was crudeness hidden by intelligence, the wendigo is intelligence hidden by crudeness. Also, id like to tell you my view on what a wendigo is exactly.

I see t as a possessive force that controls an individual (or individuals) who are close to succumbing to cannibalism. Now as to why there's so many ways the wendigo is described is because it has multiple stages in the transformation. At first they seem like a normal human, albeit mad and starving Then their body begins to rot, leading to the more zombie like interpretations. Next they grow in size and grow longer hair, hence the bigfoot-esce wendigo's. finally you get this ten-foot tall mean motherlubber. But why do they change? Well several actually. The first being hunger, as the wendigo eats more, it wants more. So it adapts to hunt better. The thing is though, as long as the hunts going well and they get the food it needs, it doesn't need a reason to change. So the final form will only be reached if it is absolutely starving. It also takes several hundred years to mature, making them even rarer.

So that was a long blab.

Next 'im thinking something asian or greek. any suggestions?

EDIT: i just realized i forgot to color his axe's handle....FML