Wendigo

The Wendigo, Also known as Windigo, Weendigo, Windago, Waindigo, Windiga, Witiko, Wihtikow, and numerous other variants. Is personally my favorite "monster". Appearing in the mythology of the Algonquian people. It is a malevolent cannibalistic spirit into which humans could transform, or which could posses humans. Those who indulged in cannibalism were at particular risk.Wendigo's were associated with winter,the north,coldness,starvation,and famine. They were embodiment's of greed,gluttony, and excess.
 Basil Johnston, an Ojibwe teacher and scholar from Ontario, gives one description of how Wendigos were viewed:
"The Weendigo was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tautly over its bones. With its bones pushing out against its skin, its complexion the ash gray of death, and its eyes pushed back deep into their sockets, the Weendigo looked like a gaunt skeleton recently disinterred from the grave. What lips it had were tattered and bloody [....] Unclean and suffering from suppurations of the flesh, the Weendigo gave off a strange and eerie odor of decay and decomposition, of death and corruption."


Wendigos were said to be giants, many times larger than human beings.Whenever a Wendigo ate another person, it would grow in proportion to the meal it had just eaten, so that it could never be full.
It has been said That when a person resorts to cannibalism they could turn into a Wendigo or become posessed by a Wendigo, often in a dream. Once turned,a person becomes obsessed with eating human flesh.