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A Windigo is a figure from the mythology of the Algonquian, a native American tribe. According to tradition, the Windigo is a cannibalistic person, possibly a lost hunter who was forced to eat human flesh in order to survive. Now, he has become some sort of creature who roams the woods in search of humans to eat.

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