Talk:Wendigo: A Terrifying Story/@comment-25248589-20160206070036

From my understanding of Wendigo lore, the only way a Dark Spirit of Winter can posses a living person is if they commit cannibalism, however they can also posses the dead bodies of those who have died of starvation; but you can't just call one up, and they posses you.

Also, in the descriptions i've had they don't have a deer's head; they look like normal people who are starved to the point of skeletalism, with teeth that are broken and jagged from chewing on sticks, and rocks, trying to quell an unending hunger that can only be temporarily satisfied by eating human flesh. And when they do catch and eat someone, they quickly grow larger, making them more dangerous. They will also have to eat twice as much to be sated the next time, which will cause them to grow even more, thus creating a cycle.

But then, I live in what is essentially a Native American dumping ground, so i imagine there has been a lot of cross pollination of stories over they years.