wendigo

/หˆwษ›ndษชษกษ™สŠ/

IPA: /W EH1 N D IY1 G OW0/

noun
  1. 1

    A hybrid fish derived from a male brook trout and a female lake trout

Synonyms

noun
  1. 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.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/splake, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wendigo