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Heres all the different names associated with the wendigo from its vast oral history.

Wiindigoo, Wendigo, Weendigo, Windego, Wiindgoo, Windgo, Weendigo, Wiindigoo, Windago, Windiga, Wendego, Windagoo, Widjigo, Wiijigoo, Wijigo, Weejigo, Wìdjigò, Wintigo, Wentigo, Wehndigo, Wentiko, Windgoe, Windgo, Wintsigo. Windigoag is a plural form (also spelled Windegoag, Wiindigooag, or Windikouk.)

There is at least a hundred different version from the same story. Some say its a physical creature, some say its supernatural.


Heres a book you can purchase if you so desire -

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0803275781/natilangofthe-20


Here are some vocal accounts -

http://www.ourvoices.ca/index/ourvoices-story-action/id.0002


Here is the directory -

http://www.native-languages.org/northeast-culture.htm


Here is another book of a personal account -

https://books.google.ca/books?id=7ZaZDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false


Excerpt from the book above -

“The Wendigo was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tightly over its bones. With its bones pushing out over its skin, its complexion the ash gray of death, and its eyes pushed back deep into the sockets, the Wendigo 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 Wendigo gave off a strange and eerie odor of decay and decomposition, of death and corruption.”


Heres a link to a hunting party that encountered a physical Wendigo in 1907 -

http://algernonblackwood.org/Z-files/Wendigo.pdf


Feel free to use the canadian archives for further analysis. Heres the link -

https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/pages/home.aspx


Lastly, wendigo psychosis is a modern term used to describe people like swift runner or the modern equivalent, Vince li.


Heres your sources for those two individuals so you know there real -

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/hanged/swiftrunner.html


The early idea for the term came from this source, but was attached to the supernatural oral history.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jesuit_Relations


But since a portion of the oral history states the Wendigo as being a supernatural creature, then the other oral accounts must all be wrong. My bad.

Im not trying to argue its real, all I’m stating is there is more than a few oral histories available for the Wendigo legend and some viewed it differently. But since sources are important here, I’ve attached as much as I could remember outside of the canadian archives since I’m not digging that hard over a tard fight.