Tales of the Slayer: Wendigo

Preface:

I’ve often wondered about what life for a Slayer would be like in a non-European culture. Nearly all of the Tales of the Slayer stories have involved European Slayers. Some have even gone so far as to not have any Slayers called in the Americas until after the European colonization began, and have the first American Slayer be a girl of European descent. It seemed to me that the monsters and demons that the Slayer is supposed to be fighting wouldn’t be limited to the Eurasian continent, and Slayers would have been needed in America (and Africa, and Australia) long before any Europeans found it.

I had also noticed that there are quite a few similarities between many of the North American wendigo legends, and vampire legends. Then I came across a version of the wendigo story that had the wendigo being defeated by a girl, using wooden sticks as her weapons. That she must have been a Slayer was obvious to me, and this story started to simmer in my mind.