In order to fill 320 episodes, Supernatural writers got to explore all sorts of terrifying creatures. So what is a wendigo and when did it get featured on the show?
To understand the monster, we need to take a look at its origin story. The Algonquian tribes saw the Wendigo as more than a mythical monster. It was a cautionary tale of what happens when you let gluttony overcome you.
Let’s take a look at the beginning of the legend and where it shows up in pop culture today.
What Is a Wendigo?
So what is a wendigo? According to Algonquian legend, these creatures weren’t born a monster. They became one.
A wendigo is the result of a person driven to madness by hunger. This hunger leads them to do something unforgivable: resort to cannibalism.
When they eat human flesh, that person becomes a beast driven only by hunger. The very thing that created them will haunt them for the rest of their lives. They will spend the rest of their time on this earth hungry, only getting momentary relief when actively eating another person.
Some people who saw the creature believe it’s a relative of Bigfoot. Others think that the creature is more similar to a werewolf.
A wendigo resides in the cold, so sightings mostly take place in Canada and sometimes northern states like Minnesota or in the Great Lakes region. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Algonquian tribes would commonly blame missing person cases on wendigo attacks.
In some accounts, the wendigo uses his swift speed to entrap victims. But his primary…
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