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means A monstrous, ice-hearted spirit from Algonquian tradition that possesses people and drives them to insatiable cannibalistic hunger, no matter how much they consume.

from From Ojibwe wiindigoo (also spelled windigo, witigo, or weendigo in various Algonquian languages, including Cree and Innu), a figure rooted in the deep winters and famine seasons of the northern forests, where starvation was a real and recurring threat. The windigo embodied that terror directly: a being of ice and emaciation, growing hungrier with every victim it devoured rather than being satisfied. The word and the belief belong specifically to Algonquian peoples and their oral traditions — it later got borrowed, and often distorted, by non-Native writers and pop culture into a generic horror-movie monster, a flattening many Indigenous communities consider disrespectful to its original spiritual and cautionary meaning.