The Little Girl Who Defeated the Windigo
A Windigo as tall as a white pine tree approached a village, its approach signaled by a kettle swinging over the fire and trees cracking from the bitter cold. The villagers were terrified, but a wise old grandmother's granddaughter, a tiny girl, asked for two peeled sumac sticks as long as her arms. She told her grandmother to melt a kettle of tallow. When the Windigo came over the hill, the little girl ran out to meet it with her two dogs. She grew bigger and bigger with each step until she was as tall as the Windigo herself. She struck the Windigo with the sumac sticks, which had turned to c