Got this from 'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark' by Alvin Schwartz: "The Wendigo, or Windigo, is a female spirit that personifies the awful cold of the northern forests. She figures in the folklore of forest Indians in Canada and sections of the northermost United States. "According to this legend, the Wendigo attracts victims by calling to them in an irrisistable way, then bears them away at great speed, finally sweeps them into the sky, then drops them, leaving them fith frozen stumps where their feet once were, As they are carried off, they characteristically scream, '...My firey feet, my burning feet of fire!'" "The only defense against the Wendigo is to restrain the person who is being called. But the spirit then tries to entice whoever is holding him. "In the lore of some northern tribes, the Wendigo functions not as a spirit of the cold, but as a cannibal giant that kills for human flesh. Some nineteenth-century Indians also suffered from a cumpulsion to eat human flesh, an illness anthropologists later described as 'Wendigo Psychosis'"

The origins of this supernatural entity can be traced back to Native American Indian legends in southern Canada and along Minnesota's Iron Range. In typical accounts, the wendigo is a half-phantom/half-beast, which dwells in forests and preys upon the flesh of animals and men. Some legends state that the wendigo is gigantic in proportions, sometimes alleged to be twelve feet high in stature, with a curious star marking upon its forehead or chest. Other legends state that wendigos are the spirits of men and women who once struck pacts with evil spirits to perform murderous deeds and are cursed to roam the wilderness in atonement for their crimes. http://www.leftfield-psi.net/glossary/glossary_w.html In the mythology of the Algonquin-speaking tribes of Native Americans, the Wendigo is a malevolent supernatural creature. It is usually described as a giant with a heart of ice; sometimes it is thought to be entirely made of ice. Its body is skeletal and deformed, with missing lips and toes. The first accounts of the Wendigo myth by explorers and missionaries date back to the 17th century. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo#The_Wendigo_in_Native_American_mythology

the wendigo originated in the northern woods. the wendigo in some cultures is fifteen feet tall and is very thin with long yellow fangs and yellowish skin. some say it was once a man that got trancformed into that creature by magic. the word wendigo means cannabol. the only way you can let a wendigo in your body is if you resort to eating human flesh. this usually happens when people are trapped in the woods and it is the only way to survive.once you eat the human flesh your body if open to let a wendigo in. after the wendigo gets in all you want to eat if human flesh. you will not be yourself anymore. if a wendigo eats anything other than human flesh it will scream and run around in a extreme rage killing everything in its path. the only way to stop a wendigo is to kill it, and sence it was once a human and is in a human form it will die the same ways as a human would. some say that when you are in the woods if you are really quiet and are very still you can hear the wendigo screaming trying to find its next victom.

I dont have any info. BUT I SAW FEAR ITSELF TOO!!!

I don't know, but it sounds Australian. Lol:)