The Wendigo cursed the Micmac burial ground and the curse's consequences would be that any corpse laid in the ground would become reanimated in a day, but as either murderous shell of their former self or worse, cannibal.

The Micmac burial ground lay not too far through the woods from a pet cemetery which would become used by the town's future children. Sometime in its life, it encountered the primitive Micmac burial site in Maine, in the place which would become Ludlow. The Wendigo inhabited the entire northern semisphere of North America, around Canada, and had supreme dominion over every creature and every organism in its domain. The Wendigo prematurely cuts the thread which binds humans to life, so it might be linked with Atropos. The Wendigo might be linked with the three Moirae, because of its ties with Death.

It is a primal demon that terrorized the Algonquians, the Micmacs and other Native American tribes, as well as cursed the Pet Sematary.Īs described by the legendary author Stephen King from the novel, this ancient ghoulish demon is a grotesque, laughing god, a face with up-tilted, yellowish-gray, gleaming eyes, mouth drawn down in a rictus, lower lip turned out, blackish-brown, worn down teeth, ram's horns for ears, black pulsing veins in the lips, flared nostrils expelling white vapors, a long, pointed, dirty-yellow, scaled and peeling tongue, with a white worm underneath it. The Wendigo is a supporting antagonist in the Stephen King Mythos, appearing as an unseen minor antagonist in the novella, The Body, the overarching antagonist of Pet Sematary and the main antagonist of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. ~ Stephen King about the Wendigo in Pet Sematary. But what struck Louis were the ears, which were not ears at all, but curving horns.they were not like devil's horns they were ram's horns. The mouth was drawn out in a rictus, the lower lip was turned inside out, revealing teeth stained blackish-brown and worn almost to nubs. (.)its eyes tilted up like the eyes in a classical Chinese painting, were a rich yellowish gray, sunken, gleaming.

Wendigo creature