Windigo
The Windigo is a fearsome cannibalistic ice monster of Ojibwe and Anishinaabe mythology, known throughout the Algonquian-speaking peoples of North America. A Windigo was once human but was transformed through an act of cannibalism or overwhelming greed into a giant, emaciated creature with a heart of ice. It has an insatiable hunger for human flesh and grows larger the more it eats, never satisfied. Windigos are associated with winter, famine, and the cold. They can be killed only by destroying their ice heart or melting it with fire In United States folklore, this figure is known among the Oj