“The Wendigo story, now, that was something you could hear in those days all over the north country. It was a story they had to have, the same way I guess we have to have some of our Christian stories. Norma would damn me for a profaner if she heard me say that, but Louis, it’s true. Sometimes, if the winter was long and hard and the food was short, there were north country Indians who would finally get down to the bad place where it was starve or… or do something else.” “Cannibalism?” Jud shrugged. “Maybe. Maybe they’d pick out someone who was old and used up, and then there would be stew for
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