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Are Wendigos Related To Werewolves?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Wendigos are rare malevolent vicious predatory cannibalistic eating machines that will completely devour any human in their path. \u00a0They are quite intelligent, and diabolical in their way of luring humans into traps.\u00a0 However, they are unable to speak due to larynx issues. All we hear are growls, grunts, and guttural sounds.\u00a0 Wendigos start out as weakened humans who are vulnerable to possession by an evil Native American spirit.\u00a0 Usually, people who are always hungry often obsess over food.<\/p>\n

In ancient times it was people starving in the winter but more recently it’s been those on restrictive diets for the purposes of weight loss.\u00a0 Overall, the Wendigo spirit still strikes in winter most often. \u00a0Generally, a time of sun-deprived depression for some. The victims suffer from Wendigo Psychosis<\/a> and\u00a0develop an insatiable appetite for live or freshly killed human flesh.\u00a0 Anything dead too long starts to activate a ghoul response since ghouls<\/a> are formed by those partaking of rotted dead human flesh.<\/p>\n

The Frightening Formation Of The Wendigo!<\/h2>\n

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Slowly but surely the victim goes through the various stages of Wendigo formation. This is why they vary in appearance based on eyewitness accounts.\u00a0 The early stages are that of deformed almost demonic looking human which gives way to a Werewolf<\/a> like being, and eventually the final phase of a skinny wolf-deer hybrid looking beast with antlers, and large, long arms with sharp claws.\u00a0 At this point their body begins to rot even as their appetite grows.\u00a0 An appetite that is never satisfied.\u00a0 They become almost walking skeletons.<\/p>\n

Like zombies<\/a> they eventually rot into nothingness no matter how much they devour.\u00a0 The shelf life of a Wendigo is said to be at least a quarter of a century which is far greater than a zombie life expectancy of under 5 years! \u00a0Once they die the Wendigo spirit lives on to find a new victim, and the process starts over again.\u00a0 The original possessing Wendigo spirit eventually melds with the human to form one new melded Wendigo consciousness.\u00a0 So there are Wendigo spirits that are in fact dozens of people unified as one.\u00a0 We can only hope that these damned souls will be separated so they can move on to the afterlife someday.<\/p>\n

Wendigos were actually originally born from deceased Werewolves<\/a>. That’s why certain forms of Wendigo are sometimes mistaken for Werewolves.\u00a0 The Werewolf threat was becoming an epidemic in North America several centuries ago until the Native Americans embraced Lycanthropy, and made it their own via the creation of the infamous\u00a0wolf packs. However they had to make sacrifices in order to accomplish this.<\/p>\n

They first prayed to the Great Spirit Gitche Manitou<\/a> who refused to answer their pleas. Most likely he didn’t want to be a part of dealing with demonic based Werewolves. They also appealed to Nokomis, aka Mother Earth Goddess Gaia<\/a>, who wanted to help but was most likely blocked by demonic forces.\u00a0 The Natives then went to Hanegoategeh<\/a>, the spirit of evil, out of desperation. He granted the Native American medicine men the power to create controllable Werewolf packs within the tribes as protection against the rabid rage filled paranormal beasts that terrorized them.<\/p>\n

These special Werewolves could transform at will and retain most of their human will in Werewolf form.\u00a0 The first of these Werewolves ended up developing a dual intertwined soul in order to stay conscious in Werewolf form. So the full energetic brunt of the demonic Werewolf persona had to go somewhere. When the Native’s died their human soul moved on to the afterlife while the Werewolf soul was left behind. Nobody foresaw this, and Hanegoategeh wasn’t about to warn anyone.<\/p>\n

In fact Hanegoategeh himself may have been a being from another dimension rather than a simple Native American spirit. Interestingly enough, Wendigos don’t have demonic DNA but rather something original, and unseen in other paranormal beings. However, there are some Werewolf traits minus the demon elements.\u00a0 Hanegoategeh was responsible for the creation of the Wendigo so they must display some of his DNA to an extent.\u00a0 The DNA he would display if he took physical biological form. Wendigos are generally more powerful than Werewolves so this might indicate that Hanegoategeh comes from a race of beings more powerful than common demons.<\/p>\n

These disembodied Werewolf spirits were the first, and original Wendigo spirits. \u00a0Spirits stuck in our plane of existence.\u00a0 In\u00a0nature there is always a price to pay when tampering with the supernatural.\u00a0 The balance between good, and evil is always Universally kept.\u00a0 The Wendigo spirits tried to enter the bodies of other Werewolves but couldn’t tame a fellow beast already tied to a physical form.\u00a0 They then tried to possess common humans with little success.\u00a0 It just didn’t have the same punch as demon possession.<\/p>\n

The Wendigo spirits then experimented with entering the bodies of weakened humans.\u00a0 They found the highest success with hungry humans.\u00a0 Those starving in the winter due to scarcity of resources which is far less common in the modern world now.\u00a0 The spirits were naturals at fueling cannibalistic urges.\u00a0 Every time they got someone to eat human flesh it gave them an additional toe hold in the person, and allowed them to alter the host victims DNA a bit.\u00a0 The original spirits intent was to become a Werewolf again. Instead they became Wendigos.<\/p>\n

Unlike Werewolves, Wendigos don’t transform back to humans.\u00a0 They remain Wendigos till the very bitter end.\u00a0 The complete transformation happens over the span of their relatively short lives.\u00a0 Like Werewolves they are affected by the full Moon.\u00a0 We see an increase in Wendigo activity under the full Moon\u00a0along with a paranormal power boost! It’s suggested that their transformation process accelerates during the full Moons as well.\u00a0 On average Wendigos tend to be stronger than Werewolves despite the Lycanthropes demonic DNA, and much more muscular frame.\u00a0 It could be due to the fact that they still have a human side while Wendigos are monstrous 24-7.\u00a0 They are also taller on average than Lycanthropes. Especially since they are primarily bipedal in nature.<\/p>\n

Wendigos see humans as prey, and will stop at nothing to hunt them down with a vengeance in order to quell their insane hungers.\u00a0 If you feel a Wendigo is afoot leave the area quickly!\u00a0 These paranormal predators have ultra enhanced strength, speed, agility, and senses as well.\u00a0 There is also some evidence that the Wendigo spirit can project itself from it’s body temporarily to cause Wendigo psychosis which will drive you insane at the least.\u00a0 If one is close enough to bite, or scratch you it’s not likely you’d even survive.\u00a0 If you did then you would develop the deadly Wendigo Sickness for a time which would manifest as flu like symptoms, hallucinations, and a hankering for human flesh.\u00a0 Although you most likely would not turn into a Wendigo, you should expect to meet your maker unless you treat yourself with various herbal measures, and colloidal silver<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How To Repel Wendigos<\/h2>\n

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[Amazon Ad]<\/figcaption><\/figure>Since Wendigos are not demon based most religious artifacts<\/a> don’t work as repellants.\u00a0 Only the religion of the Algonquian peoples<\/a> has somewhat of an effect since they are the originators of the Wendigo spirits.\u00a0 The only known repellent is to hang any type of dead flesh on yourself. This can be as simple as some slice of deli meat.\u00a0 Wendigos loath rotting flesh even when they are ironically rotting in their later stages.\u00a0 This is why you won’t find them anywhere near graveyards, or mortuaries.\u00a0 They also avoid zombies like the black plague.<\/p>\n

Consumption of rotted human corpses won’t reverse Wendigopy.\u00a0 In the early stages it will push them toward ghoulhood, and in the later stages is will hyper accelerate their rotting process.\u00a0 The only way to eradicate a Wendigo is to rip its heart of black supernatural ice from it’s chest, and shatter it.\u00a0 Stakes won’t do it.\u00a0 Then the corpse must immediately be burnt in flames blessed by a special Algonquian Native American ritual.\u00a0 If this happens properly then the humans intertwined in the Wendigo spirit will be released to find peace in the afterlife.\u00a0 The Wendigo will truly cease to exist rather than haunting another hungry victim!<\/p>\n

Read About Our Vampire Associate Drake Alexander’s Run In With A Wendigo In January Of 1866<\/a><\/p>\n

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