Definition of "windigo" [windigo]

• A malevolent, violent, cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which inhabits the body of a living person and possesses him or her to commit murder. (noun)
• A psychological condition specific to some Native American groups, in which a person (in fever-induced delusions) believes that he or she is possessed by a cannibalistic wendigo spirit, or in which society hysterically believes a person to be so possessed. (noun)

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• "He stood over the lifeless form of the windigo that had once been Wellington."
• "It was answered in kind by Wellington, who was no longer Wellington but a windigo."
• "But when the beast is dead, there is a great danger that you will stay a windigo forever."