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单词 windigo
释义 windigo
 /win"di goh'/,  n.  
  1. (in the folklore of the Ojibwa and other Indians) a cannibalistic giant, the transformation of a person who has eaten human flesh.
  2.  Psychiatry.   a culture-specific syndrome occurring primarily among the Ojibwa and related Indian peoples and characterized by fever-induced delusions that one is being possessed by such a giant. Also called witigo.
 [1705-15; < Ojibwa wi·ntiko·; c. Cree wi·htiko·w]
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