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Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenSouthern England:
    • IPA: /ˈwɛndɪɡəʊ/
  • RP:
    • IPA: /ˈwɛndɪɡəʊ/
  • GA:
    • IPA: /ˈwɛndiɡoʊ/

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Määritelmät

Substantiivi

  1. (mythology) A malevolent and violent cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which is said to inhabit the body of a living person and possess him or her to commit murder.
  2. Synonym of splake (“kind of hybrid fish”).

Esimerkit

  • [N]o man can meet with the Wendigo, / No man can face him or see him; / Only his track in the snow is seen, / And lost is the hunter that sees it.... The heart that ne'er quailed on the war-path / Turns to stone at the name of the Wendigo.
  • Machekequonabe, an Ojibwa, was found guilty of manslaughter in an 1896 trial for killing a “wendigo,” an evil spirit clothed in human flesh.... There is an extensive anthropological literature on the wendigo and on wendigo killings in Native Canada. The wendigo...were cannibal spirits that could inhabit the bodies of living people, causing them to kill even members of their family.
  • Once there, however, I found no signs indicating the way John and the wendigo might have gone.

Taivutusmuodot

Monikkowendigo
Monikkowendigoes
Monikkowendigos

(mythology) A malevolent and violent cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which is said to inhabit the body of a living person and possess him or her to commit murder.

A person dressed as the wendigo character from the television series Hannibal at Fan Expo 2015

(mythology) A malevolent and violent cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which is said to inhabit the body of a living person and possess him or her to commit murder.

An artist rendered a wendigo as frequently depicted in contemporary pop culture.