windigo

windigo
/win"di goh'/, n.
1. (in the folklore of the Ojibwa and other Indians) a cannibalistic giant, the transformation of a person who has eaten human flesh.
2. Psychiatry. a culture-specific syndrome occurring primarily among the Ojibwa and related Indian peoples and characterized by fever-induced delusions that one is being possessed by such a giant. Also called witigo.
[1705-15; < Ojibwa wi·ntiko·; c. Cree wi·htiko·w]

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