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English
Noun
wiindigoo (plural wiindigoos or wiindigoog)
- Alternative spelling of wendigo.
Ojibwe
Etymology
From Proto-Algonquian *wi·nteko·wa.
Noun
wiindigoo (plural wiindigoog)
- (mythology) In Algonquian mythology, a malevolent cannibalistic spirit into which humans may transform, or which may possess humans; a wendigo or windigo.
- (mythology) A cannibalistic or man-eating giant or monster which may appear in the winter.
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