The Wendigo Pt. 2
Scary Stories To Tell On The Pod
Forever Dog
4.8 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this long-requested ep, Anna and Andrew read “The Wendigo” and with the help of a gentle listener’s research, unpack the problematic nature of the tale, the harm that comes with appropriating Indigenous culture for the purposes of horror, and the actual origins of the cannibalistic monster.
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| 1:26.0 | Welcome. |
| 1:26.9 | We are, of course, talking about the story from Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gamal's scary stories, |
| 1:33.3 | Tell him the Dark, the Windigo, unpacking a lot of the problematic things that make us go, |
| 1:42.6 | ooh, in a way that is not throwing, but in a way that is self-reflective. |
| 1:47.1 | Things that go, hmm, in the night. |
| 1:51.9 | Makes you think. |
| 1:53.5 | And we are still reading research from the wonderful spooky teacher of the pod, Kari, |
| 1:59.5 | who sent us in not only insights into the larger nine-part novella that the story is based on, but also some larger contextual information about the lore around the windigo and its indigenous origins. |
| 2:14.7 | This is amazing. So fascinating. |
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