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The Cryptid Zoo: Windigo (also spelled Wendigo) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | The windigo generally became a shapeshifter, able to turn back into a man or woman at will, or it just transformed in the winter and returned to human when spring came. |
| | The characteristics ascribed to the monster form of the windigo varied a lot from one legend to the next, so it is hard to describe exactly what a windigo was like beyond a few basics that seemed to be fairly universal. |
| | Thus, windigo legends are used (along with wildman folklore and old-time "gorilla" sightings) as a kind of background history for the Bigfoot fad. |
| www.newanimal.org /windigo.htm (420 words) |
