Windigo monsters are made humans, not natural beasts

Evidence

Windigo stories were told around the fire to scare children into safe behavior lest this Ojibwe boogeyman make a meal of them. Or worse. This monster is no bear or howling wolf, no natural beast. Windigos are not born, they are made. The Windigo is a human being who has become a cannibal monster. Its bite will transform victims into cannibals too. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1113

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Windigo precisely — a made human cannibal, not a natural beast — giving the monster’s deep meaning.
• XREF: Windigo connects to the chapter themes on consumption/addiction and to course threads on colonialism and resource ethics — the cannibal monster as metaphor for extraction. — connects to: European monster-lore described human-animal hybrids like a girl with monkey head and feet

Broader Connections

• European monster-lore described human-animal hybrids like a girl with monkey head and feet #complicates (0.75)