As the legends are passed on orally or told, with no written medium, the stories often contradict each other. Wendigo stories vary from tribe to tribe and region to region, but the most common cause of change is related to cannibalism. A modified example, not in the original wendigo legend, is that if a person sees a rugaru or rougarou, that person will become one of these. He appeared in your closet in the most traumatizing event ever and has never left since as a guardian that only you can see