Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-5170510-20190918022535/@comment-9041013-20190919103456

MrEvan312 wrote: An interesting point, Bloody, because I actually intended for it to more resemble the original ghoul legends but I never bothered to look into ghouls, which come from pre-Islamic Arabian folklore. ANd I recently learned that the Wendigo as we know it is innaccurate, kind of an escalation of a native parable regarding greed in times of hardship. I might need to rethink this, which do you think? Maybe the classic ghoul would be more suited to a Crusades themed story...

I'll definitely take this one into account. What would you suggest? I think you being able to find more info on the ghouls is more likely. All things considered, we're probably closer culturally to pre-islamic arabic peoples than to North American ones. These tend to have very different concepts to our own in the old world, or old world centered cultures. For example, you can't really explain the Skin Walker in English (or any old world language) properly.

In my opinion, get as much of a information as you can on either really, if you manage to grasp something on the Wendigo (psychosis) and add a bit of your own spin to it. Cause that's always, I guess more engaging and perhaps more interesting, especially to an audience that might not be aware of the real deal.