wendigo

noun2

1. •
   A malevolent and violent cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which is said to inhabit the body of a living person and possess him or her to commit murder.

   • No one is safe in such times, not even the Cree of Mushkegowuk. War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth. — 2005
2. •
   Synonym of splake (“kind of hybrid fish”).