User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/Werewolves/@comment-24101790-20170310140335/@comment-26030957-20170312053211

Would I love to read a wendigo psychosis story by Empy!

You've covered so many mythological beasts already, I'm surprised the wendigo is not already in your resume. The madness and hunger, chewing off your own lips, to finally be crowned with a set of antlers. So bad ass!

The fear of losing control, I think, is definitely the most terrifying aspect of these mythologies. Many scholars agree that a fear of rabies is a source of much folklore. Bitten by an animal, be it bat, possum, raccoon, wolf, a member of the tribe goes crazy and homicidal. Thus forbidding the drinking from an animal's paw print.

The madness of ergot is always fascinating, be it the Salem Witch Trials, or the LSD that was administered by the CIA.

There is a great essay by Dr. Bernice Murphy (author of The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture, Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness) in the book The Shining Studies in the Horror Film (which I've told you about before) on how Jack is an analogy to the wendigo. You can read it on line here: [] but you do have to download a PDF to do it.

I really think you'd enjoy it, bro.