Examples
“Rabies used to be described as a wendigo spirit (because you die of dehydration.)”
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“Blomquist says the aboriginals in the area thought Thompson could turn people into the evil cannibalistic entity known as a wendigo and avoided him.”
“Sorry about that, I promise I'll try to return to my usual bits such as wendigo summoning using tanbura sampler with vocoder, and ranting about Hilbert space, shortly.”
“Maybe I can find an erotic take on the wendigo myth for a piece of my own.”
“A few pages before the end of my stack, I saw the first reference to a wendigo.”
“The wendigo ep, doesn't that just take you back to think about it?”
“A game with giant birds, wendigo and Bigfoot .....”
“In this piece the author draws on the mythology of the wendigo or wittigo, as she calls it here, as we meet a woman who long ago was reduced to cannibalism and in a feverish state, she fed her dying child to her husband to save his life during a terrible winter.”
“And don't forget that the movie the 13th Warrior is about wendigos too. posted by Tom Novak, who has never actually seen a wendigo in the wild - so can be safely categorized as being in the non-Titus Crow category.”
“We should contemplate the wendigo, classic winter horror deity, or Ithaqua.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wendigo’.
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nouns
enfleurage, fautor, mafia, haslet, chopine, sea-gate, cantillation, formicary, go-devil, Gongorism, mamzer, mazarine and 147 more...
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Mythical Beings
mermaid, manticore, fairy, brownie, dwarf, elf, leprechaun, selkie, gremlin, puck, pixie, genie and 97 more...
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Phantasmas
Ouroboros, chimera, incubus, cerberus, hippogriff, leviathan, centaur, Jabberwock, numen, snark, sphinx, hippocamp and 26 more...
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Witchcraft, monsters, and the macabre
lamia, onomancy, divination, hagiolatry, jackalope, lycanthrope, thaumaturge, tzigane, chthonic, thaumaturg​ic, revenant, soucouyant and 4 more...
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Words To Use In Creative Writing
hag-ridden, light-heeled, wendigo, longshanks, fatuous, insipid, sodden, bulging, sycophantic, uncourtly, gauche, assuasive and 102 more...
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Fictional beasties
elf, gnome, dwarf, sprite, troll, fairy, nymph, imp, brownie, sasquatch, yeti, wookiee and 574 more...
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Ptolemy's Gate
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, Ptolemy's Gate.
fall afoul, fleet, tamarisk, krait, inkstone, hotted up, down-market, have a truck with, brio, fatalistic, knock-kneed, conserve and 210 more...
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the gods must be crazy!
quetzalcoatl, baron-samedi, loa, orichas, arianrhod, aine, amaethon, annwn, arnemetia, balor, badbh, bean nighe and 1061 more...
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The "dark" things
grave, dead, death, die, died, dies, murder, murdered, murderer, murders, murdering, murderous and 115 more...
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uncleosbert's Words
omphalaskepsis, gravid, steatopygian, marmalade, triffid, scurrilous, kith, lilliputian, slunk, snailular, milquetoast, elephantine and 191 more...
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Negasonic Teenage Warhead
"Wow, we really have run out of names."
Codenames of superheroes, supervillains, etc. (that are actual words, or unique spellings of actual words).rogue, gambit, wolverine, storm, cyclops, phoenix, cypher, beast, berzerker, toad, avalanche, magma and 125 more...
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Words that kick serious ass
juggernaut, haymaker, gung-ho, frag, smite, blunderbuss, gargantuan, ragnarok, ripsnorter, herculean, silverback, firebrand and 127 more...
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bestiary
hippogryph, cockatrice, lamia, basilisk, centaur, cerastes, manticore, mermaid, strix, sphinx, loup garou, echeneis and 34 more...
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bestiary
Cryptids and fabulous monsters...
wendigo, chupacabra, bunyip, cryptid, fury, harpy, siren, kraken, ouroboros, satyr, sileni, jackalope and 11 more...
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I like : W
wailing, wanderlust, war, warlock, wend, wherewithal, whippoorwill, widdershins, wendigo, wight, willow, witch hazel and 16 more...
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Speak of the Devil
Different names for Old Boy, and other demons that might possess us.
vetala, mara, Lilith, dybbuk, incubus, succubus, bogle, boggart, wendigo, Asmodeus, diabolus, Belial and 45 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for wendigo.
bilby No. It obviously rhymes with Bendigo, an Australian goldfields town near where my parents grew up. It will patiently await the Coming of the Third -Endigo, as prophesied in scripture, and finally be useful in limerick-making. Oct 24, 2011
chelster Whether this word is spelled wendigo or windigo (preferred), the only attested pronunciation in reputable dictionaries is WIN-di-goh, as illustrated by this couplet by Ogden Nash: "The Wendigo, The Wendigo! Its eyes are ice and indigo!" — The Orthoepist Oct 24, 2011
madmouth delicious! Apr 14, 2009
dgstone Prounounced "wen-dee-go", which is Algonquin for "the hunger." A malevolent cannibalistic spirit whose appetite for human flesh can never be satiated. Mar 13, 2008