Rescued Thread: Wendigo

[Lycanthrope]

Due to some posts falling into Oblivion, I re-post one of them, contents of which I happened to save on my hard drive.

Algernon Blackwood wrote a short story entitled "The Wendigo" in 1910, first popularizing this legend. The entire tale is posted online in several places. See http://www.gordon-fernandes.com/hp-love ... endigo.htm , for example

Has the copyright expired? The Project Gutenberg website, http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10897, declares that "The Wendigo" is no longer copyrighted in the United States.

A 2001 film entitled "Wendigo," http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275067/,
reinvented the legend, describing the wendigo as half-man, half-deer.

In Quebec, French myths about werewolves ("loups garous) collided with ancient wendigo myths, resulting in hybrid stories, such as the rugaru
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rougarou

Here are some more Wendigo websites:
http://www.glasseyepix.com/html/model.html
[weredeer monster from the 2001 movie]
http://www.thewendigo.com/html/TheWendigo.html
http://www.thewendigo.com/html/wendwha.html
[weredeer cartoon]
http://www.prairieghosts.com/wendigo.html

[Ashkin-Tyr]

Thanks for compiling this list on the wendigo and saving them from obscurity.


Its interesting, I was not aware there were so much variations of the wendigo legend.

[Lycanthrope]