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windigo

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win⋅di⋅go

[win-di-goh]
–noun
1. (in the folklore of the Ojibwa and other Indians) a cannibalistic giant, the transformation of a person who has eaten human flesh.
2. Psychiatry. a culture-specific syndrome occurring primarily among the Ojibwa and related Indian peoples and characterized by fever-induced delusions that one is being possessed by such a giant.
Also called witigo.


Origin:
1705–15; < Ojibwa wi⋅ntiko⋅; c. Cree wi⋅htiko⋅w
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