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Wendigo originated as the beliefs of the Algonquin People, based out in Canada.
It can be found in the forests of Canada and the Great Lakes and Plains of the United States

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One story of how The Wendigo came to be was first a hunter who was out during a cold winter, on the verge of death. He had no food so he turned to cannibalism and ate another human’s flesh. This flesh had transformed the man into a beast who now searches for more people he can feast on.

Fact: Wendigo translates to "evil spirit/cannibal"

https://www.tbsnews.net/splash/legend-wendigo-44773

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The Wendigo has a number of different powers including, enhanced strength and speed, and can imitate a victim's voice to lure them into his reach. Additionally, the Wendigo is stronger when a full moon is present. It stands at around 14.8-15 ft in height

http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/Wendigo_(creature)

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Wendigo

Powers and Abilities

Enhanced strength and speed. It can imitate human voices to lure in its victims, which it traps and keeps alive for long periods so that it can feed from them.

Vulnerabilities

Fire; can be kept at bay with a protective circle of Anasazi symbols and injured by Silver-tipped Bows and Arrows.

Appearance

Humanoid; tall and pale with elongated limbs.

Episode(s)

1.02 Wendigo

Wendigo

A creature that was once human but was transformed into an immortal evil spirit when it took up the practice of cannibalism. Wendigos are cursed to wander the land, eternally seeking to fulfill their voracious appetite for human flesh.

Various Native American tribes tell slightly different stories about this creature and refer to it by different names - Wendigo, Witigo, Witiko and Wee-Tee-Go - but each version roughly translates to mean the evil spirit that devours mankind . Around 1860, a German explorer translated Wendigo as cannibal.

Wendigos are believed to live in the northern woods of Minnesota and in the north central regions of Canada. Kenora, Ontario, Canada, has been given the title of Wendigo Capital of the World by many. Sightings of the creature in this area have continued well into the new millennium.
Wendigos are generally rumored to be gigantic spirits, over fifteen feet tall, lanky and with glowing eyes, long yellowed fangs, terrible claws and overly long tongues. Sometimes they are said to have a sallow, yellowish skin; other times they are described as being matted with hair. The Wendigo's full powers have never been recorded. The creature excels at stealth and is a near-perfect hunter, knowing and using every inch of its territory - caves, hills, trees and bushes. Some stories posit that Wendigos can control the weather through the use of dark magic.
- Pad of Definitions ( 1.02 Wendigo), Official Website

Characteristics

Well, it's always the same. During some harsh winter a guy finds himself starving, cut off from supplies or help. Becomes a cannibal to survive, eating other members of his tribe or camp.

- Dean Winchester, 1.02 Wendigo

Wendigos were once humans who were forced to consume human flesh in order to survive. When a human consumes the flesh of another person they can become imbued with new strength and abilities. The continued consumption of human flesh over years will eventually make a person less and less human, until they become an emaciated husk of what they were, driven by a never-ending hunger.

Wendigos are excellent hunters and excel at it, especially at night. A wendigo will typically hibernate for years at a time, but when they are awake they are known to keep their victims alive to feed on at their leisure.

Powers and abilities

Claws - A wendigo has long claws which they use to slash their prey.

Enhanced senses - Wendigos have enhanced senses of smell and hearing, as well as the ability to hunt in complete darkness.

Immortality - With the continued consumption of human flesh and their ability to hibernate, a wendigo can theoretically live forever.

Superhuman strength and speed - The consumption of human flesh gives a wendigo the ability to tear humans limb from limb as well as incredible speed, making them incredibly stealth hunters.

Voice mimicry - Wendigos can imitate human voices to lure prey.

Weaknesses

Anasazi symbols - A protective circle of Anasazi symbols can keep a wendigo at bay.

Fire - Burning a wendigo is the only known way to effectively kill one.

Silver - A wendigo can be injured by silver-tipped bows and arrows, but they are ineffective as a means of killing one.

While trying to find their father, John Winchester, Sam and Dean help a family whose brother has gone missing on a camping trip. He has been taken by a wendigo, but they find him alive in a cavern where the wendigo stores its victims as living food sources. Dean kills the creature by shooting it with a flare gun.

When preparing for their assault on Niveus Pharmaceuticals, Sam notes that he almost misses the days when he and Dean merely hunted wendigos rather than trying to stop the Apocalypse.

Sam finds a mask of a wendigo in the trunk of the Impala. Dean tells him that he helped Ben make it for Halloween, and Sam admits that it is a good likeness.

The demon Ellsworth is sent to New Mexico to capture a wendigo and bring it in so Crowley can question it.

Garth receives a call from a hunter named LaMar who is hunting a wendigo. Garth ask if he has a flare gun or flamethrower; the hunter does not, and Garth advises him that he better start running.

Victor Rogers' family was killed by a wendigo while they were camping.

Hearing noises from outside his cabin while trying to make out with his girlfriend, Tommy Collins assumes it to be a wendigo. He reaches for a blowtorch in his backpack, when suddenly he is struck with an intense pain and his head explodes in front of his girlfriend.

Dean reminds Sam they they worked a wendigo case with Heather "a couple years ago."

The hunter Asa Fox was known for having killed five wendigos in single night. After Asa's death, at his wake, anytime a hunter would say the word "wendigo," everyone would have to take a drink. After learning this firsthand, Dean suggests Sam does not say "wendigo" to anyone back at the party.

A wendigo is one of the creatures that Sam, Dean, and Bobby hunt in the novel Supernatural: Fresh Meat; this wendigo was a man named William Foster who went on an expedition in 1845 that was forced to resort to cannibalism when the party ran out of food, Foster going so far as to kill his Miwok guides on the grounds that they weren't really human as they weren't white.

Wendigos in Lore

Windigo is actually a mental illness that some First Nations suffer from. It is a culturally-bound illness (meaning that it doesn't occur outside of First Nations groups) where the person suffering from the illness believes that they could be possessed by an evil spirit that would turn them into homicidal cannibals. Windigo is actually a derivative of the Ojibwe (Native American) folk legend of the "wiindigo" (pronounced WEEN-di-goh), a creature much like that shown in Supernatural. However, in Ojibwe folklore the wiindigo is described as more werewolf-like than human-like and does not possess the ability to mimic human voices. Many traditional Ojibwe people still believe this creature to exist in the woods of Northern Minnesota as referenced by Dean in the episode. The wendigo features prominently in the Stephen King novel Pet Semetary.

Roy Campsall portrayed the wendigo.

The wendigo was originally one of Eric Kripke's least-liked creatures from the first season, due to the creature's makeup not coming out how he expected it to. He claimed that the episode was only saved due to the dark lighting keeping the wendigo hidden in the shadows.

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Wendigo Powers and Abilities Enhanced strength and speed. It can imitate human voices to lure in its victims, which it traps and keeps alive for long periods so that it can feed from them. Vulnerabilities Fire; can be kept at bay with a protective circle of Anasazi symbols and injured by Silver-tipped Bows and Arrows.

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Another version of Wendigo that is found in novels is from books written by famous author Stephen King. Wendigo appears in Pet Semetary and The Girl Who Liked Tom Gordon. King describes Wendigo a little bit differently than others where “ancient ghoulish demon is a grotesque, laughing god, a face with up-tilted, yellowish-gray, gleaming eyes, mouth drawn down in a rictus, lower lip turned out, blackish-brown, worn down teeth, ram's horns for ears, black pulsing veins in the lips”

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Wendigo_(Stephen_King)

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Alias

The Wendigoo

The God of the Lost
The Devil
The Thing
Little God

Occupation

Demon of cannibalism

Necromancer

Powers / Skills

Brainwashing

Possession
Immortality
Resurrection
Black magic
Necromancy

Hobby

Resurrecting corpses as the aggressive undead.

Goals

Curse the Pet Sematary forever.

Resurrect anyone human or animal buried within the Pet Sematary as an undead cannibal.

Crimes

Malefic/dark magic

Mass murders
Usage of necromancy with criminal intent
Possession

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(...)its eyes tilted up like the eyes in a classical Chinese painting, were a rich yellowish gray, sunken, gleaming. The mouth was drawn out in a rictus, the lower lip was turned inside out, revealing teeth stained blackish-brown and worn almost to nubs. But what struck Louis were the ears, which were not ears at all, but curving horns...they were not like devil's horns; they were ram's horns.

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~ Stephen King about the Wendigo in Pet Sematary.

The Wendigo is a creature from Stephen King Novels, appearing as the overarching antagonist of Pet Sematary and the main antagonist of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. It is a primal demon that terrorized the Algonquians, the Micmacs and other Native American tribes, as well as cursed the Pet Sematary.

As described by the legendary author Stephen King from the novel, this ancient ghoulish demon is a grotesque, laughing god, a face with up-tilted, yellowish-gray, gleaming eyes, mouth drawn down in a rictus, lower lip turned out, blackish-brown, worn down teeth, ram's horns for ears, black pulsing veins in the lips, flared nostrils expelling white vapors, a long, pointed, dirty-yellow, scaled and peeling tongue, with a white worm underneath it.

The Wendigo might be linked with the three Moirae, because of its ties with Death. The Wendigo prematurely cuts the thread which binds humans to life, so it might be linked with Atropos.

The Wendigo inhabited the entire northern semisphere of North America, around Canada, and had supreme dominion over every creature and every organism in its domain.

Sometime in its life, it encountered the primitive Micmac burial site in Maine, in the place which would become Ludlow. The Micmac burial ground lay not too far through the woods from a pet cemetery which would become used by the town's future children.

The Wendigo cursed the Micmac burial ground and the curse's consequences would be that any corpse laid in the ground would become reanimated in a day, but as either murderous shell of their former self or worse, cannibal. Seeing this danger, the Micmacs abandoned Ludlow and resettled elsewhere.

Pet Sematary

Throughout the Caucasian/white settlement of Ludlow during the old colonial days of America, the Wendigo lurked behind the scenes, manipulating events in the town just as Pennywise and Andre Linoge manipulated events in the two American small towns of Derry and Little Tall.

The Wendigo reanimated whatever animal was laid in the newly rediscovered Micmac burial ground with his necromantic power, such as bulls, cats, and dogs. It revived the dog of Jud Crandall, a native to the town, and his father, who knew of the cemetery, warned Jud against future excursions. Once reanimated from death, the "resurrected" corpses showed more aggression than usual and would frequently attack strangers.They lived for roughly 10 years and then died again.

During World War II, however, the burial ground's pull became stronger, when a man named Timmy Baterman was killed in Italy and shipped back to be buried. Timmy's father buried him in the Micmac cemetery, feeling the pull.

Timmy was reanimated and came back to his father's house, possessed by the dark influence of the Wendigo. This did not escape attention, and a group of townspeople, including adult Jud, came back to Timmy's house, demanding his father to undo the evil he had unleashed. Mr. Baterman refused to notice anything unusual, although he was physically ill.

Tim, possessed by the Wendigo's dark powers, gave away dark secrets about the men who had come to speak to his father, and scared the men senseless so that they left. However, that night, Tim's father shot his son, then doused the house in flames, and shot himself. The doctor thought Tim had been dead for weeks because of how decomposed his body had become (which made sense as Wendigo's necromatic ability did not restore the already dead tissues).

Once the Creed family moved into Ludlow, Dr. Louis Creed's daughter Ellen, who was nicknamed "Ellie", lost her cat on the highway. So an old Jud took Louis to the Micmac burial ground and persuaded him to bury the cat. The cat was subsequently reborn and came back to Louis' house the next day. Wendigo's necromatic force which ensured this turn of events however, resulted the cat to become more aggressive than usual as well as inducing it with craving for flesh and emanating terrible smell like a corpse.

Shortly afters, Louis' infant son Gage was killed on the highway when he was mowed down by a lorry. Louis went mad and, despite Jud's protests, took Gage up from his grave and carried him through the woods to the Micmac cemetery, narrowly avoiding the Wendigo on the way, whose presence he actually saw. The Wendigo let Louis pass unimpeded, as it knew what he was about to do. Louis buried his son and the next morning his son had reanimated.

His son, reanimated by Wendigo's necromatic force as with the cat that buried earlier, proceeded to kill Jud and Louis' wife, and then came for Louis. But Louis was quick, he killed the reanimated cat, and then killed his reanimated son. The Wendigo, bereft of a human body for instruments of his destructive necromatic influence, biding its time in the woods as it waited for another victim. Louis happened to drag his dead wife through the trees to the Micmac cemetery - one of his friends tried to follow, but was scared off by the Wendigo laughing.

The Wendigo reanimated Rachel Creed's body and she walked back to Louis' house and killed him that night, completing its vengeance against the townspeople.

2019 Remake

In the remake, Wendigo is once again the source of dark forces that haunt the titular cemetery. True to its portrayal in the book, Wendigo has a powerful presence over Pet Sematary, so much that its existence was explicitly documented in the accounts pertaining the said burial ground.

Other than resurrecting the deceased who buried at Pet Sematary, Wendigo briefly made its presence known to a grief-stricken Louis Creed as he carrying the exhumed body of his 9-year-old daughter beyond the ruins of the Pet Sematary to the ancient resurrection grounds that lie deeper in the woods. As he passes through Little God Swamp, the mist closes around Wendigo's towering form before it disappears. Though, Creed is able to see the glimpse of it and unsure with what he just saw, which is exactly how it plays out in the novel.

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As of the 20th century, sightings of the Wendigo have significantly decreased, but there have been reports of the “Wendigo psychosis”, a Wendigo-type behavior. People in the 17th century reported homicide and suicide thoughts and hunger to eat human flesh.

https://www.amc.com/blogs/true-monster-horror-stories-from-around-the-world--1008810

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In the most recent depiction of Wendigo, directors Scott Cooper and Guillermo del Toro wanted to take the approach of a more “God-like” creature. The design had to seem unnatural and something that was out of the ordinary. One feature was the bones that “looked like coal...We have to see he looks ancient and powerful, and one with nature”.

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/antlers-guillermo-del-toro-wants-the-wendigo-to-look-like-a-god/

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Wendigo: The Monstrous Creature of North American Folklore - Mythological Bestiary -See U in History