What Is a Wendigo?
8. Wendigo Psychosis
Possession by a Wendigo spirit can cause people to become insane and crave the flesh of human beings. Of course, in reality, is the wendigo is just a myth, but its name has still been lent to a very real condition that also causes people to crave human flesh.
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Some people are forced to eat human flesh out of necessity, but that is not relevant to wendigo Psychosis. Instead, the victim cannot resist eating human flesh despite there being other food options available to them at the time. Despite there being a name for the disorder, many people feel as though it doesn’t really exist.
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