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Pyrexia Induced Incubus
In South America in 1972, Air Force Flight 971 from Uruguay carrying thirty-five passengers crashed into the Andes Mountains. Nearly thirty survived the crash but some fell victim to injuries and later an avalanche. The survivors, including members of a rugby team, had little food and no source of heat in the harsh conditions and faced with starvation were forced to make the ultimate decision. They fed on their fellow passengers preserved in the snow. Many were friends and classmates. This nightmarish ordeal lasted two months until two of the men reached a village and the last of the sixteen survivors were rescued.
A Wendigo is an evil spirit brought into creation by one of the ultimate acts of evil: cannibalism. They have been a part of American Indian culture since the beginning. They begin as a human who becomes depraved and cannibalistic and those cannibalistic tendencies turn the person into the monster. It is an insatiable beast. It wants flesh. It wants blood. It is never satisfied with the amount that it can eat. It is a monstrous deviant from humanity that can move between time and space to get to its victims. There is no escape.
The Algonquin tale of the Wendigo has as much to do with mental health as it does with cannibalism. Wendigo psychosis is a very extreme form of cabin fever. In the psychosis, someone is trapped or isolated with other people for very long periods of time. They may have plenty of provisions but the individual will believe that they will turn into a monster and cannibalize other people around them. It is a very dangerous delusion. The Wendigo psychosis is also a form of compulsion where the individual will believe that once they eat human flesh they will always want to eat human flesh and never get enough. In some ways this is similar to drug addiction.
Closing the book "American Anthropophagist", Ken Finlayson turned to look at the television in the living room. The episode "To Protect and Serve Man" of the television series "Grimm" was playing.
Terrific.
He had a fever. He was drained. He had been reading a book about Wendigos and now there was the episode of a television show featuring the beasts playing. He had closed the book! Now it was time to turn off the television!
Upon doing that, Ken picked up his phone and started to dial Heidi Weinerman's number. If he were going to talk to someone to stave off a fever-induced nightmare then he'd prefer it was his girlfriend.
It was at that point that that Ken suddenly decided to take a nap.