Konradleijon
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Like how modern Artist "reinterpret" myth or misrepresent various folklore and religions.
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I absolutely hate the Wendigo episode in Charmed. I don't really care for that show anyway, but my step-mom loves it so I'd end up sitting through it when it was on. That one drives me crazy because I think the Wendigo is an interesting legend, and there's two versions of its legend that I know of, I like both of them, but they used neither of them for the show. I think the more common version, the depiction you'll hear in most Native American stories about it, is that it's a giant monster, bigger than a tree, perhaps with a head similar to a deer, an insatiable hunger for human flesh, and if you encounter it you're fucked. The other is like Until Dawn's Wendigos, these tall, lanky human-like creatures that are people possessed by an evil spirit because they ate the flesh of another human.
Charmed just made the Wendigo Werewolves! Someone got bit or scratched by one and they became a "Wendigo", it was slightly bigger than the average person, and I'm pretty sure they killed it with silver, like a silver bullet. If you're going to just make the monster a werewolf then make it a werewolf, don't slap another monster's name on it so people stick around like "oh I don't know what the Chupacabra is, I should watch this episode. Wow I never would have guessed it was a friendly ghost that grants wishes". There's a difference between adding or changing something about a mythical creature's lore and making a different monster, like Until Dawn's Wendigo only being able to see movement, and killing them doesn't involve "burning it's icy heart to ash and scattering it to the 4 winds", because the first is interesting to work around and the other is an annoyingly complicated additional step. I'll even take that stupid change where Twilight Vampires sparkle in the sunlight instead of die, at least they aren't wrapped in bandages and sleep in pyramids!
Also the Spainish where never mistaken for gods by the Aztecs https://knowledgenuts.com/2014/02/14/the-aztecs-didnt-mistake-the-spanish-for-gods/.
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I absolutely hate the Wendigo episode in Charmed. I don't really care for that show anyway, but my step-mom loves it so I'd end up sitting through it when it was on. That one drives me crazy because I think the Wendigo is an interesting legend, and there's two versions of its legend that I know of, I like both of them, but they used neither of them for the show. I think the more common version, the depiction you'll hear in most Native American stories about it, is that it's a giant monster, bigger than a tree, perhaps with a head similar to a deer, an insatiable hunger for human flesh, and if you encounter it you're fucked. The other is like Until Dawn's Wendigos, these tall, lanky human-like creatures that are people possessed by an evil spirit because they ate the flesh of another human.
Charmed just made the Wendigo Werewolves! Someone got bit or scratched by one and they became a "Wendigo", it was slightly bigger than the average person, and I'm pretty sure they killed it with silver, like a silver bullet. If you're going to just make the monster a werewolf then make it a werewolf, don't slap another monster's name on it so people stick around like "oh I don't know what the Chupacabra is, I should watch this episode. Wow I never would have guessed it was a friendly ghost that grants wishes". There's a difference between adding or changing something about a mythical creature's lore and making a different monster, like Until Dawn's Wendigo only being able to see movement, and killing them doesn't involve "burning it's icy heart to ash and scattering it to the 4 winds", because the first is interesting to work around and the other is an annoyingly complicated additional step. I'll even take that stupid change where Twilight Vampires sparkle in the sunlight instead of die, at least they aren't wrapped in bandages and sleep in pyramids!
Also the Spainish where never mistaken for gods by the Aztecs https://knowledgenuts.com/2014/02/14/the-aztecs-didnt-mistake-the-spanish-for-gods/.
