In Algonquian tradition the wendigo is a spirit of famine, cold, and insatiable greed — a human transformed by the taboo of cannibalism into a gaunt giant with frostbitten skin stretched over visible bone, lips eaten away, and a heart of ice. It grows in proportion to what it consumes and is never full.
The archive treats wendigo material with respect for its cultural origin: this is not a 'monster' in the trophy sense but a moral entity — the embodiment of consumption without limit. Historical wendigo panics were serious enough that the condition entered psychiatric literature.
Modern field reports from winter backcountry describe mimicked voices calling from treelines, sudden localized temperature drops, and tall gaunt figures standing motionless at the edge of firelight. Reports spike in January and February.