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Rangermatthias t1_jdwjow5 wrote

Wendigo are people who have become cannibalistic creatures - usually evil "medicine men" or "witches" of various North American Native Cultures, however some stories suggest eating human flesh in certain locations can curse someone into becoming one. Wendigo are often pictured with antlers and even desiccated elk/deer/moose heads or skulls

Fleshgait are shapeshifters (to varying degrees). As shapeshifters, Fleshgait can, in theory, take on the appearance of a wendigo, if they had any desire or reason to.

In their 'normal' forms, both tend to be tall, emaciated, and pale, with extremely long arms - often depicted as reaching past their knees. For that matter, the internet phenomenons SlenderMan and The Rake also have some physical similarities with Wendigos and Fleshgaits.

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Soggy-Chemistry5312 t1_jdwfeod wrote

I think OP has a lot more to worry about than which type of creepy being she’s encountered… But either way, it could be helpful to understand what she may have encountered. I really just recently found out about what they are, so I don’t know much, just that one does have antlers, and the other one possibly doesn’t?

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