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Definition of: windigo
(win′di·gō) noun
In the mythology of certain Algonquian North American Indians, especially in the Labrador and Ojibwa districts, an evil demon; also, a mythical tribe of cannibals believed by the Chippewa to inhabit an island in Hudson Bay: also spelled weendijo. [<Algonquian (Ojibwa) weendigo a cannibal]
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