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9 gen 2024 · 10 Photos. Horror Thriller. A Native American teen resurrects an ancient demon to protect his family from meth dealers, but finds the creature's bloodlust uncontrollable, forcing the family to break the curse before becoming its next victims. Director. Gabe Torres.
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10 lug 2023 · Some have speculated a lost Algonquin tribe may have settled in North Carolina. Some suggest these stories are merely legend, while others truly believe repo...
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24 ott 2023 · Rent now on Amazon. A horror comedy from the 1990s, Frostbiter starts off with two friends embarking on a hunting trip. As they break a sacred circle in the process, they are chased by a Wendigo on a murderous rampage. The hilariously dated 90s effects might not make the film scary enough for modern audiences.
3 giorni fa · Out of Darkness86%. #6. Critics Consensus: A survival thriller reduced to the bare essentials, Out of Darkness offers a chilling reminder that the horror of looming death might be humanity's most universal experience. Synopsis: A small boat reaches the shores of a raw and desolate landscape.
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wendigo, a mythological cannibalistic monster in the spiritual tradition of North American Algonquian-speaking tribes. It is associated with winter and described as either a fearsome beast that stalks and eats humans or as a spirit that possesses humans, causing them to turn into cannibals. There are many different spellings and pronunciations for ...
Some legends say the wendigo is an emaciated figure with ashen flesh. Others describe it as a giant creature up to 15 feet (4.5 metres) tall or as a beast that grows larger the more it eats. It may have sunken or glowing eyes and sharp yellowed fangs and claws. Its lips are chewed or entirely missing because it has eaten them. It may be hairless or have fur, and it may have pointed ears and horns or antlers like a deer. It smells of rotting flesh and is usually first detected by humans by its horrible odour.
Wendigos are believed to have exceptionally sharp eyesight, hearing, and sense of smell as well as superior strength and speed in order to stalk and overpower their victims. They live in colder climates among the woodlands and lakes of Canada and the northern United States. They can move easily through deep snow and across ice. A shaman may be the only person who can subdue and destroy a wendigo, using either a silver, steel, or iron bullet or a dagger. Some legends, however, claim the wendigo’s heart must be cut out and melted or burned in a fire before its spirit is truly vanquished.
The wendigo legend exists in the oral history of North American tribes predating Europeans’ arrival in North America. Some anthropologists believe the legend developed as a cautionary tale about the importance of community to guard against individual greed, selfishness, and isolation. The wendigo was a personification of cold and hunger in a time when human survival relied on banding together and sharing resources, particularly during the long, harsh winters of the northern wilderness. The legend may also have served as a warning to children not to wander too far into the woods.
The first known written mention of the wendigo appears in a 1636 report by Paul Le Jeune, a French Jesuit missionary living among the Algonquin people in what is now Quebec. Le Jeune described a woman who warns of an atchen that had eaten some tribal members nearby and that “would eat a great many more of them if he were not called elsewhere.”
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A few instances of murder and cannibalism in North America were blamed on the wendigo. These included a case in Alberta, Canada (1879), where a Cree hunter and trapper named Swift Runner claimed a wendigo spirit had entered his dreams and told him to eat his family. He was tried for murder, found guilty, and hanged for his crimes later that year. Another case occurred in 1907 among the Sandy Lake First Nation community in northern Ontario. The tribal shaman, Jack Fiddler, and his brother, Joseph Fiddler, were charged with the murder of Joseph’s daughter-in-law, whom they had strangled to prevent her from becoming possessed by a wendigo. After the brothers’ arrest, Jack Fiddler escaped the police and strangled himself, and Joseph Fiddler died from tuberculosis in prison in 1909.
By the early 20th century, the term wendigo psychosis was being used by psychologists and missionaries to describe a culture-bound syndrome among Native and First Nations people whose symptoms included delusions of becoming possessed by an evil spirit, depression, violence, a compulsion for human flesh, and, in some cases, cannibalism. The syndrome was also diagnosed retroactively in historical cases of cannibalism in North America. However, the existence of the syndrome is disputed by some scientists.
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