Talk:Wendigo/@comment-27599548-20170729154519/@comment-29602226-20170729194207

The version I have read about in myths and folklore books looks like a scary, crazed, emanciated man with no feet; its stumps look like burnt sticks because his feets have been charred into cinders due to running too fast while pursuing its victims, so now it has to use wind magic to fly and hunt its victims: That's the reason going outside during windy nights was a bad idea...

But anyways, KC's Wendigo is largely inspired by Algernon Blackwood's The Wendigo tale, not by native american myths... Blackwood's Wendigo has deer antlers sometimes, has animal legs, lures people with its voice, and doesn't eat humans, but changes its victims' bodies into Wendigo-like bodies...