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  • Windigo is an Indian term for going crazy after eating human meat.

    The Four Toughest Men of the Old West 2009

  • Windigo is an Indian term for going crazy after eating human meat.

    The Four Toughest Men of the Old West 2009

  • The Windigo is a cannibal giant with a heart of ice.

    REGIONAL MYSTERIES AND THRILLERS 2009

  • In the stories the Ojibwe told, the Windigo was a cannibal giant with a heart of ice.

    Vermilion Drift William Kent Krueger 2010

  • The Windigo is a scary story by Algernon Blackwood about a group of hunters who are out in the woods of northern Canada when they encounter a monster from American Indian legend called The Windigo.

    2007 March | Scary For Kids 2007

  • In Anishinaabe myth, the Windigo was a cannibal giant with a heart of ice.

    Mercy Falls William Kent Krueger 2005

  • In Anishinaabe myth, the Windigo was a cannibal giant with a heart of ice.

    Mercy Falls William Kent Krueger 2005

  • WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER: I use the story of the Windigo a lot.

    REGIONAL MYSTERIES AND THRILLERS 2009

  • Indians where I live have traditions of Windigo who will kill you horrible if you mess with them, the tales make the Windigo seem as much a creature of spirit as flesh.

    Big Foot? 2009

  • But what do we have of Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti or Windigo, only the lore of spirit and tales.

    Big Foot? 2009

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