Jawnomicon

Possession causes cannibalistic madness

A motif, one of the traits figures share. All traits.

Behaviour TMI D2062

2 figures

Wendigo

It's said to possess humans, driving them to madness and cannibalism.

Black Tamanous

several connect the name specifically to the Cannibal Spirit associated with winter ceremonial societies documented among Kwakiutl and related Pacific Northwest coast peoples, where initiates in a cannibal society were said to ritually enact themes of being possessed by or embodying such a spirit during the winter ceremonial season.