Wendigo
c. 1600 CE – 2026 CEattested
Algonquian lands, subarctic North America
- North American
An Algonquian figure for the horror of famine and cannibalism in a hard winter. A warning about what starvation does to a person, not a monster story.
Known for
- insatiable hunger
- associated with winter famine
- a warning against cannibalism
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.