They can maintain the act of normalcy, that is until their body degrades, and the only thing left is skin and bones. Wendigos that are not too far gone can look and act just like any other man or woman in a village. Often that switch in mentality is what makes them 'insane'. Sometimes, the Wendigo chose to possess a person instead, and then the luckless individual became a Wendigo himself, hunting down those he had once loved and feasting upon their flesh.' According to their legends, a Wendigo is created when a human resorts to cannibalism to survive. Its breath was a strange hiss, its footprints full of blood, and it ate any man, woman or child who ventured into its territory. 'a giant with a heart of ice sometimes it is thought to be entirely made of ice.' The Ojibwe describe it as a ' large creature, as tall as a tree, with a lipless mouth and jagged teeth. It is a malevolent, cannibalistic, supernatural being that is strongly associated with winter, the north, coldness, famine, and starvation. The Wendigo is a mythical creature and or evil spirit that was once human.

Lends its name to the disputed modern medical term Wendigo psychosis, which is considered by some bhiatrists to bea syndrome that creates - ) They are cursed to wander the land, eternally seeking to fulfill voracious appetite for human flesh and if tt nothing left to eat, it starves to death. The appeal of human flesh grows stronger and stronger, until they snap, and their soul is fully corrupted. Soon fish and berries can no longer sate them.

Wendigos in the cold region of North America

The land of blood and ice