The Wendigo

by Algernon Blackwood

"It's nuthin'—nuthin' but what those lousy fellers believe when they've bin hittin' the bottle too long—a sort of great animal that lives up yonder," he jerked his head northwards, "quick as lightning in its tracks, an' bigger'n anything else in the Bush, an' ain't supposed to be very good to look at—that's all!" "A backwoods superstition—" began

The Wendigo defined as a myth

"for the Wendigo is simply the Call of the Wild personified, which some natures hear to their own destruction."

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