Post by merangel on Apr 30, 2016 0:56:44 GMT -5
The Weetigo is a terrifying spirit that tends to be a menace to the Ontario area and prairies (however, there may be encounters and claims in other parts of Canada and northern part of the U.S.).
There are numerous ways to spell Weetigo and could go by different names (including Windigo) depending on the aboriginal tribe, but it all relates back to the same type of spirit. (Hopefully, I'm not wrong on that.)
This spirit can "possess" the living and make that person do some heinous acts of violence and cannibalism, hence, the cannibal spirit.
The most controversial and recent case is (I'm not stating this as fact and I'm not providing any excuse to what this person did.) when Vince Li stabbed, decapitated and ate parts of a weary traveller on a Greyhound bus one night. This was purely unmotivated and unplanned. Some people claim that they saw a dark, strange figure just off the road right before it happened. Whatever the case may be, Vince Li claims and still claims he was convinced at the time that he had to kill this guy. He was deemed criminally insane and sent to a mental facility rather than jail, and is now free to live on his own in the city. A lot of people, including unfortunate witnesses who are forever traumatized and effected, and the victims family and friends, are outraged. So, please be respectful and understand that I'm only including this incident because it does get tied to encounters with a weetigo/windigo spirit. Vince Li is also not culturally linked to the spirit and the spirit is deemed a state of psychosis rather than the paranormal. Vince Li is a schizophrenic and wasn't taking his meds when he took the Greyhound bus.
This is a blog I found that explains this.
moralesjaisenmaree.blogspot.ca/2014/03/windigo-psychosis-and-its-effects-on.html
In Algonquin and Cree tribes, when not possessing people, the spirit can appear in the form of a dark-faced, tree-sized figure with no lips that terrorizes people by looking in homes. Or it can appear as a very tall, black-eyed woman that looks into windows of cabins and cottages on camp grounds. There are a few stories where the spirit can fly around.
My sources:
creemythology.weebly.com/the-cannibal-spirit.html
Ghost Stories of Manitoba
