Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Video:
It was believed to have started in the North-Eastern American tribes, however, it died out due to European Americans started noting it down.
2:10- 7:24
The mythical man-eating monster or evil spirit that originated from the northern forests of the Atlantic coast
During the winter of 1878/1879, Swift Runner murdered his wife, mother, brother, and his five children and ate them. Swift Runner was arrested by Canadian authorities and after his arrest, he confessed to his crimes and claimed that he had been possessed by the spirit of a Wendigo.
In a study of 70 cases of Wendigo Psychosis treatment,
The woman who was supposedly "possessed" seemed rational, had no desire to eat human flesh, and only wanted to kill strangers because she feared they would hurt her. She surrounded herself with her close family, and avoided new people in order to avoid the temptation to kill them. This was one of the most well-documented cases, and doesn't resemble the psychosis at all.
Case study: J E Saindon (1900s)