Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Pop Culture References

There are many different references to Windigoo in Pop culture; there are many different shows and movies that include the infamous Windigoo.  The creature Windigoo has appeared in Movies such as Ravenous, X-Men and Wendigoo, as well as featured in series of television shows like X- Files, Charmed, Blood ties, Fear Itself, Supernatural, Grimm and many others. In a television show sometimes they focus on more of the humorous side of the creature. In the tv series Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the two  main characters Charlie and Dean eat supposed human meat called Franks and develop “Windigoo Psychosis, and they start to do crazy things like eating monkey and visiting the morgue to eat corpses.  Windigoo are used in children shows as well, in the show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, in the episode “Hearth Warming Eve”. Windigoo are shown and they feed of hatred and fighting and the winter will get colder and harsher if the ponies show those nasty traits. The Windigoo are also in shows for horror.  For example in Hannibal; Windigoo is featured in the final episodes in Season 1 and return for season 2. In the mind of Will Graham he is the imagination of Hannibal Lector.  

Windigoo is also a featured character in a few books also. For example in the book Lothaire, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, The curse of the Wendigo, and Where the Chill Waits. 

The Round House Quotes:
"A Windigoo could cast its spirits inside of a person. The person would become an animal, and see fellow humans as prey meat (180)." The Round House is a novel that the Windigoo is a myth but it has ability to possess people. 

"Would I become a Windigoo? Infected by Lark? (294)" In the near end of the book a character was comparing a dead soul to the Windigoo and he felt as if he was being haunted.


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