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These works set the template for later portrayals in popular culture, at times even replacing the Native American lore. [41] In an early short story by Thomas Pynchon, "Mortality and Mercy in Vienna" (first published in 1959), the plot centers around a character developing Wendigo syndrome and going on a killing spree. In 1973 a character ...
Wabiwindego (literally “White Wendigo” or sometimes "White Giant" [1]) (d.1837), also spelled Wobwindego, Wobiwidigo, or Wabaningo, and known among the Ojibwe as Waabishkindip [2] (literally “White-Headed”), was a leader of the Grand River Band of Ottawa in what would become the U.S. State of Michigan.
Native American giants (13 P) I. Inuit legendary creatures (16 P) ... Wendigo; Y. Yehasuri This page was last edited on 14 March 2018, at 16:39 (UTC). ...
To rationalize what he had done, he convinced himself that the cannibalistic Butch Cavendish was a wendigo, a non-existent monster used in Native American ghost stories to frighten children. The character wears black-and-white face paint and a deceased crow on his head. [6]
The Wendigo (film) This page was last edited on 7 October 2023, at 17:10 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
In Kevin Costner’s first installment of his four-part epic Horizon: An American Saga, bands of settlers head west in search of a so-called promised land, where they can park their wagons and set ...
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