Air Force in Japan, when tales of the Kappa wove itself into his earliest memories. Reminds me of stories my husband tells of his childhood at U.S. Author's Note: How Wendigoes WorkĪh, the wendigo. They've become video game characters in "Final Fantasy," "The Legend of Dragoon" and "The Secret World," and been given life in role-playing games like "Dungeons & Dragons." Marvel Comics has created Wendigo personas, and Stephen King included a Wendigo in his novel, "Pet Sematary." More recently, television shows such as "Grimm" and "Hannibal" have featured wendigoes. Wendigoes continue to haunt us, although not usually in the wilderness. Skip a step and the wendigo may be able to resurrect itself, hunt you down and inflict a slow and agonizing death. Or, as a second option, bury the pieces in a remote location ( a la Harry Potter's attempt to reclaim Salazar Slytherin's locket from the subterranean lake).
Not one to seek a simple end, the rest of the wendigo must be dismembered with a silver-plated axe so you can salt and burn the body, and then scatter its ashes to the winds. Upon wounding the wendigo's heart, you must take care to shatter it into pieces, then lock the shattered heart in a silver box and bury it in a church cemetery.
(Note: It's widely believed a silver-covered steel blade could work if you're in a pinch.) The trick is to employ silver bullets, or a pure silver blade or stake, and strike right through the wendigo's ice-cold heart. If you can't outrun a wendigo, can you outgun it? Not easily. The wendigo can unlock doors and enter homes, where it will kill and eat the inhabitants before converting the cabins into wendigo domiciles for hibernation. It will race after its prey, upending trees, creating animal stampedes (and thus more famine), and stirring up ice storms and tornadoes.ĭon't be fooled into believing you're safe indoors. When the hunt begins in earnest, a wendigo becomes all business. They bait their prey, release shrieks or growls, and sometimes mimic human voices calling for help. Once the chase begins, wendigoes engage in a torturous game.
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