In The Wilderness Hunter, Theodore Roosevelt tells the story of a trapper who claims to have witnessed its destructiveness. Though sometimes cited as the creation of British suspense writer Algernon Blackwood, it is quite rooted in indigenous culture. Harboring obsessive fears about turning into a cannibal constitutes a type of psychosis named after it. Sometimes it is described as clad in white robes with a shining star on its forehead. Its role as a symbol of imminent demise was strengthened during a series of mysterious deaths in northern Minnesota at the turn of the 20th Century. For 10 points, name this evil forest spirit of Algonquin folklore that abducts victims from the sky, the name
In The Wilderness Hunter, Theodore Roosevelt tells the story of a trapper who claims to have witnessed its destructiveness. Though sometimes cited as the creation of British suspense writer Algernon Blackwood, it is quite rooted in indigenous culture. Harboring obsessive fears about turning into a cannibal constitutes a type of psychosis named after it. Sometimes it is described as clad in white robes with a shining star on its forehead. Its role as a symbol of imminent demise was strengthened during a series of mysterious deaths in northern Minnesota at the turn of the 20th Century. For 10 points, name this evil forest spirit of Algonquin folklore that abducts victims from the sky, the namesake of a Canadian foe of Spider-man and Wolverine.
In The Wilderness Hunter, Theodore Roosevelt tells the story of a trapper who claims to have witnessed its destructiveness.
{wendigo} or {wiitiko}