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The Wendigo

Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.

The story

The Algonquin and Ojibwe peoples of the northern forests have always warned of the Wendigo, a gaunt, ravenous spirit of winter and starvation that possesses those who turn to eating human flesh to survive the long cold, and grows more starved the more it eats. It is one of the oldest and most feared legends of the north woods, and the boreal country it haunts, black spruce and muskeg for hundreds of miles, is real and unforgiving. Told here as the deep folklore it is.

The ground it haunts

The northern boreal forest (northern Ontario). Source: Deep Algonquin and Ojibwe folklore, told as exactly that. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.

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