Wendigo | Cannibal Spirit of the North
While many monsters and demons of folklore devour human flesh, few are as synonymous with the act than the wendigo! Also called windigo, the Wendigo hails from mythology from Algonquian speaking first nations people of America, culminating when someone gives into insatiable greed or acts of cannibalism. The wendigo is cursed to forever wander the forest and seek human victims!
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MYTHOLOGY HAS BEEN TOLD AND RETOLD IN MANY FORMS ACROSS TIME, STORIES AND ACCOUNTS MAY VARY.
MUSIC:
"Wendigo" by L.G. DuBoise
"Chants" Phil Thornton
CLIPS:
Footage of forest at night and blizzard
OPENING:
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ARTISTS FEATURED:
Matthew Starbuck (thumbnail)
Jason Felix
Mothbot art
Charles E Gordon Frazer
Daniella Sears
Felix Riano
Daniel Eskridge
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Jemma Mora
Maria Serova
Theo Athaide
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Fran Eres
REFERENCES:
www.native-languages.org/windi...
www.legendsofamerica.com/mn-w...
allthatsinteresting.com/wendigo
mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Wendigo
www.ourvoices.ca/index/ourvoi...
www.ourvoices.ca/filestore/pd...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wi...
sciendo.com/article/10.2478/c...
mythologian.net/wendigo-mythi...
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@adriananic8258
Жыл бұрын
Hey man. How about a bigfoot vid? Most info is from europeans. But what about the natives? Legends behaviour etc.
@brianjordan3841
Жыл бұрын
🤔 hmm I wonder how well a Wendigo would fare against a werewolf or a vampire
@adriananic8258
Жыл бұрын
@@brianjordan3841 would probably win
From Until Dawn to Antlers. This thing is an evil force NOT TO BE UNDERESTIMATED. Neither The Wendigos nor The Skinwalkers.
@kcnl2522
2 жыл бұрын
U believe this shit?
@Johnlindsey289
Жыл бұрын
Pet sematary too
@adriananic8258
Жыл бұрын
I understand the wendigo. Explain the skinwalker. Shapeshifting assholes whose great sin is killing a family member to gain the power. The shift is complete. No wherewolves or 2 legged coyotes. What is the creepy aspect of it? Unless it starts screaming as a fox sneaking arou d to fuck with me or turns into a grizzly most animals out there can be taken out relatively easily with just a knife.
@diegofiora
4 ай бұрын
calm down bud they're nothing but fiction 😂
Request: The Flying Dutchman
I’ve encountered this awful thing in northern Alberta in the summer on 2019 shortly after the death of my dad. It was one of the strangest and most frightening things I’ve ever experienced.
@kipechawolfeortiz8791
Жыл бұрын
Do elaborate
Well researched & awesomely presented, my friend! When times have been extremely "lean," it's somewhat understandable that cannibalism would occur. However, it's quite a different thing altogether when humans murder others for the sake of cannibalizing on their flesh! That's where the "Wendigo Psychosis," comes into play. Interesting phrase there, by the way! I hadn't heard that terminology til watching this! I learned something new! Very cool! Excellent work!🤘🌍🌈
Until dawn make me interested in this monster. Really a brutal monster that really need to avoid at all cost. GG for covering this
It isn't a great movie, but Antlers is probably the best Wendigo I've seen. It is very creepy and very disturbing. It is a genuinely terrifying monster.
@marinakaiser7639
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you😊 never heard of the movie i'll check it later after work 👋‼
@changlouriousbasterd9524
2 жыл бұрын
@@marinakaiser7639 It doesn't get good until the halfway mark but once it gets going it's pretty great. They just spend way too much time trying to build the vibe and give us backstory on the teacher. Stick with it though because the end is pretty solid.
@marinakaiser7639
2 жыл бұрын
@@changlouriousbasterd9524 🤣🤣
@leviakasuna2806
2 жыл бұрын
I loved Antlers, it’s the only horror movie that has made me feel any kind of fear when I find horror movies repetitive and blatantly cliche as hell. I really hope they make a second movie cause they do set up a potential sequel to that story
@deaganachomarunacathasaigh4344
2 жыл бұрын
I liked it, but the Wendigo is not accurate but still a very good film
I have been waiting for you to cover this one and you did NOT disappoint! Thank you for including such a detailed background and discussion on Wendigo Psychosis. That was fascinating. Morbidly fascinating, but still. ;) Thank you for another great video!!
This was what I wanted. Keep up the good work dude
I love how you've represented these mythologies! May I humbly suggest you do a playlist on Hindu mythologies? There are so many great stories to learn and understand there. Thanks for all your work bud!
Hey, thanks for highlighting the geographical and cultural origins of this myth, with its international popularity in recent decades, many don't know. Now, lets just change Algonquin to Anishinaabek, and Algonqian languages to Anishinaabemowin, and we're all set
Hey bro can you do a video about lagahoo, it's a west Indian werewolf. Man by day, shape-shifting by night. 🇹🇹
Wasn't expecting a video like this so soon. Well done.
It also appeared in the first Christmas episode of DuckTales (2017) where it's the corrupted form of The Ghost of Christmas Past AKA Jimmy Cricket.
This is so beautiful and terrifying almost like that of a man who has antlers sprouting from his head
the elders tell us never to speak of the evil one, or say its name, because that would give it power.
@rabbitguts2518
2 жыл бұрын
Genuine question. How does every generation learn it exists then? You can't know about something you're not told about so surely the fact you know about it means that your elders already broke that rule time and time again?
@JohnnyElRed
2 жыл бұрын
@@rabbitguts2518 I guess it works like the Fight Club. No one is supossed to speak about it, but the only way of making it grow and be known is breaking that rule.
@tomv7017
2 жыл бұрын
@@rabbitguts2518 like most kids, the older kids like to tease and scare the younger ones. there are also some parents who, when asked are not as superstitious and may reluctantly tell the folklore. an elder will more than likely not want to discuss this, but after being pestered enough will finally share what they had heard and then tell the kids to not discuss this for fear of giving energy to these things. there are also storytellers whose sole purpose is to know the lore but they often hesitate talking about it because there aren't a lot of things to fight against evil. then theres the internet that everyone has in one form or another and you tube channels with scary stuff that we all watch late at night with blankets pulled up to our chins. one thing has always been made clear however, these entities are real and not to be joked about, these are not "stories". so if you are camping and telling tall tales around a fire, you'd be sharp no to talk about cannibal creatures and spirits that can change their form and speak with thoughts, because to do so on their turf would be to call out to them.
@marieindia8116
2 жыл бұрын
@@tomv7017 you may like to know that the thing that one can fight evil with is the name that the Creator calls himself. In ancient scripture He calls himself Yehovah, and his name is described as a mighty tower that we can run to for protection. He was the father of these spirits when they were good. They rebelled against him and fear his name. Anyone calling out Yehovah's name will see the power of that name. Please remember, the spirits hide and oppose this name and everyone should know it.
@chimera916
Жыл бұрын
@@marieindia8116 😂😂😂😂 He doesn't exist baby. Find a better fairytale, or evolve and free yourself from these crap
You are finally getting some subs... I'm watching your videos since you had 20k.. Keep up the good work. 👍🏻
Wonderful episode! I too find the Wendigo fascinating!
Awesome video! Keep it up
The case of Swift Runner was socumentd on the History Channel series Wild West Tech Keithv Carradine.
Just watched Antlers the other night, great timing
Nice. I was wondering when the Wendigo was going to show up.
My favorite folklore monster! Thank you for covering it better explanation than that Antlers movie
My first introduction to the Wendigo was from FF8, it was depicted as some type of ape creature. Since then, whenever i heard the name Wendigo, all i can see i a gorilla.
Fantastic
This makes me think of the Re Deads from Legend of Zelda
In your community pole you said that this weeks video was going to be about selender man
@MythologyUnleashed
2 жыл бұрын
That was an April Fools joke, in fact we said it in the post!
@timrosswood4259
2 жыл бұрын
@@MythologyUnleashed i would have like to see a video about that
would be awesome if you did a video on the gremlin bell for motorcycle riders!
I saw a Supernatural episode, where Sam & Dean used Anasazi signs to not let Wendigo cross it.
The term wendigo is synonymous with narcissist. Emotional vampires sucking your aether dry. It’s my favourite word these days because those who are narcissists cannot perceive their narcissism because it’s a trauma disorder. Want to see a magic trick? Call a narcissist a narcissist. If they are one they will reject every bit of you with rage it’s hilarious. It means they’re not your kind of people this lifetime.
Sometimes heavy drug use including meth seems to cause this condition to occur I've noticed similar physical movements walking on all fours like animals following people around.
@Passions5555
Жыл бұрын
Wait this has happened to you while on drugs? 😦😬
Oh my gosh
It was so interesting 😊👍now i know, where the term Wendigo comes at all ❤🖤‼
This is a subject not to be named. You must be careful when you speak the names of the evil ones
@chimera916
Жыл бұрын
🤨... wtf?
@pspav09
Ай бұрын
Give me a list of names of the evil ones. I’ll speak their name. So they can over take the planet.
One of my favorite monsters
Me too😂thank you M.U.Somehow he fascinate though he is soooo scary😱
Jersey devil please!!! And some such Indian legends too
I just always thought the Wendigo was just like a Wolf man!? I thought what other myths would be interesting especially with Ramadan coming up, the Djinn or at least the Ghul because that sounds terrifying!
@timrosswood4259
2 жыл бұрын
Where did you get that idea?
@megadong2398
2 жыл бұрын
You're thinking of skin walkers dude
@JackRabbit002
2 жыл бұрын
Not sure probably low budget horrors or something Just assumed Wendigo were like Werewolves! It did mention surviving an attack like so.......
@rogueascendant6611
2 жыл бұрын
@@JackRabbit002 You need to expand your horizon my friend! Not every monsters are just teenager vampires or shirtless guys that turned into werewolves.
Can we get video about Wechuge? Because that monster is also very similar to Wendigo.
Awesome content, wendigo is terrifying
I know the Wendigo legend best from the game Until Dawn.
Looks like Dr. Hannibal lecture from the series
@Johnlindsey289
9 ай бұрын
They did mention it on the show
Now cover the illusive wendigoon
Until dawn wendigo were dope aslo the pet semmtary the movies an novel has a wendigo
@Johnlindsey289
Жыл бұрын
Yup the Wendigo soured the Micmac burial ground and possesses the dead corpses of animals and humans from Church to even Gage
Funny enough game theory an food theroy did a vid about something similar to this
Debate this: Wendigo vs Skinwalker vs Aswang
The Wendigo Place somewhat of a part the Stephen King book Pet Sematary
@Johnlindsey289
9 ай бұрын
Yup it’s the demon that cursed the Micmac burial ground and killed Gage on the road and possessed the dead bodies of animals, Timmt baterman, Gage Creed, Gus Gilbert, Zowie etc and turned them into cannibalistic deadite like creatures
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Wetiko js the spirit of greed
What is Superations 2:46
@MythologyUnleashed
2 жыл бұрын
Suppuration is the process of pus formation, a viscous liquid that consists mostly of dead and dying neutrophils and bacteria, cellular debris, and fluid leaked from blood vessels.
@lordodium3872
2 жыл бұрын
@@MythologyUnleashed Thanks that's pretty badass
make for freya
I read that Wendigos are apparently bulletproof but is there an actual way to defeat? It may have said in the video.
@Fancymanfromsomewhere
Жыл бұрын
Fire kills them.
@zigzig9938
Жыл бұрын
It was shown in the Supernatural episode, where Sam & Dean killed it with fire 🔥.
@aidandunn1009
Жыл бұрын
@@zigzig9938 I've never watched Supernatural but thanks.
@chimera916
Жыл бұрын
@@zigzig9938 well, if it's in supernatural... It must be true right? 😂😂😂
Isn’t this one of those critters you’re not supposed to directly name or otherwise talk about EVER?
The 1st rule of Wendigo club...
What u forgot to mention that the wendigo didn’t appear until the Europeans came to turtle island
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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its actual cannibal shia labeouf
The wendigo's name was also used in the crappy disney lone ranger movie. in that pile of trash Tanto believes that the villain Butch Cavendish is a wendigo so he insists on using silver bullets to kill him, and the Lone Ranger uses them just to humor him. 🙄 Seriously don't watch that movie its terrible and insulting!!!!!
Oh so it's basically Ted Cruz?
@changlouriousbasterd9524
2 жыл бұрын
Looks a lot more like Adam Schiff. Ted is too fat.
@megadong2398
2 жыл бұрын
Lul
@kachi2700
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah very fun. funny, cringe
@megadong2398
2 жыл бұрын
@@kachi2700 found the ted Cruz supporter
Welcome to the club of well over 500 channels who have done this topic... yay repeats. Years later.... next step kaiju and ufo story repeats.. after that oak island
@rabbitguts2518
2 жыл бұрын
It's almost as if this topic interests a lot of people and their fans want to listen to their favourite creators interpretation of it?!? Who would have though right??? Seriously dude we're talking about mythology here, the whole point is talking about well established concepts created by specific groups if people. If you want creativity go look up a creepy pasta or something.
@megadong2398
2 жыл бұрын
🙄 Gordon don't you have anything better to do
@Akren905
2 жыл бұрын
Wendigo has been done several dozen times in the last few months from monsterium to here now. Just saying of all the things.. a hard beat repeat for this video
@megadong2398
2 жыл бұрын
@@Akren905 that's crazy, I don't think anyone asked or even watches those channels.
@Akren905
2 жыл бұрын
@@megadong2398 and my lordship why do u think I g a f about u and ur comments about my comments to the editor n creators. Go clean ur partipation awards. Legit I don't care about u. Ur a nothing. Npc to me.
the Wendigo reminds me of a corrupt version of Cernunnos