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Monsters ยท Algonquian North America

Wendigo

A hunger spirit associated with winter, greed, and taboo appetite.

Legend File

The Wendigo is one of North America's most chilling cautionary figures. In many Algonquian traditions it represents more than a beast: it is hunger without limit, a warning against greed and cannibalism in the hardest winters. Modern retellings often make it antlered, but the older terror is moral as much as physical.

Source Framing

Algonquian oral traditions of northern North America; modern adaptations vary widely.

Archival-style winter forest plate showing Wendigo as a restrained hunger-spirit silhouette with snow, tracks, and tree studies.
Source reference Wendigo reference plate Algonquian oral traditions of northern North America; modern adaptations vary widely. Codex art session / Myth Atlas