|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Member
Joined: 10/27/2008
Posts: 2
Points: 27
Location: Winnipeg
|
The people of Rabbit Fall definitely have a problem, but it might not be any of its citizens…more than a few of them seem to think it’s a Weetigo. From Ghost Stories of Manitoba by Barbara Smith: http://www.amazon.ca/Ghost-stories-Manitoba-Barbara-Smith/dp/155105180X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225051852&sr=8-3"The culture of Canadian native people is quite accepting of the concept of phantoms. One particularly fearful spirit acknowledged within the native culture is known as a 'Weetigo'. These entities sometimes inhabit bodies of live persons, causing the person to perform terrible feats that they otherwise would not have committed. Cannibalism as an example is one of the frequently ascribed unspeakable evil acts performed by the Weetigo."
"I do not judge the universe." -- Dalai Lama
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Member
Joined: 10/26/2008
Posts: 5
Points: 18
Location: Toronto
|
Rabbit Fall does have the nearby Dog Island, entirely devoted to cannibals.
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Member
Joined: 10/27/2008
Posts: 4
Points: 54
Location: Brandon
|
cannibalism is alluded to a number of times…the dna lab couldn’t rule out human bite marks on the murdered tourist…and there was another thing?
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Member
Joined: 10/26/2008
Posts: 5
Points: 18
Location: Toronto
|
John Spence. When he was young he helped murder Thomas’ cousin, and the group of kids that did it cannibalized the body. Thomas thinks the second tourist was killed by a Weetigo. At the end of that episode, you hear the wind whistling, and there’s a kid that kind of sees something but doesn’t see anything. It’s gets all “spiritvision” as if something’s flying away from John Spence’s burned-down house.
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Member
Joined: 10/27/2008
Posts: 4
Points: 54
Location: Brandon
|
Remember Simon Blackhorse goes “Bars won’t hold me, just like they couldn’t hold Johnny!” when the copes take him in to custody?
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Member
Joined: 10/27/2008
Posts: 2
Points: 27
Location: Winnipeg
|
“On December 7, 1886, Winnipeg Free Press reported on a tragic court case that had taken place in Rat Portage on December 3 of that year. It seems that for some time previously that the Sabaskong in the area had been terrified by the presence of a Weetigo. The Weetigo was appearing in human form-what we would understand today as a apparition.
The natives were convinced that the ghostly presence threatened the tribe's well-being and that, in fact, it had already harmed some of their property. The band tried hiding from the Weetigo but apparently to no avail. Finally, in a attempt to protect themselves from further harm, the band set up a system of round-the-clock watches.
On the eighth night of watch one of the guards saw a mysterious figure flitting from one spot to another with it's blanket streaming behind in a peculiar manor. He fired at what he was firmly convinced was the Weetigo. In the yell that followed the [guard] recognized the voice of his foster father who, for some reason or another had left his post and was probably hastening back to it. The young guard would have been hailed as a hero among his people if the figure had been the roaming spirit. Now tragically the guard stood charged with the murder of the man who had raised him. The judge Mr. Justice Rose was faced with presiding over a trail for which there was no precedent. After hearing attorney Wink, the jury brought in a decision of guilty-of six months' hard labour.
Given the leniency of the sentence for having taken the life of another, it is clear that the court recognized that the man firmly believed he was firing at a evil ghost and not a live person.”
That’s from the same book, so there’s precedent in the area that it could totally be a Weetigo. That’s not the only Free Press report that seems to take the idea of the Weetigo seriously.
"I do not judge the universe." -- Dalai Lama
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Member
Joined: 10/27/2008
Posts: 2
Points: 27
Location: Winnipeg
|
So? Weetigo? Masteesis (not sure how to spell that!) is definitely a spirit of some sort, and Weetigo is a cannibal/evil/greed spirit…
"I do not judge the universe." -- Dalai Lama
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Member
Joined: 10/27/2008
Posts: 4
Points: 54
Location: Brandon
|
You could say Masteesis ‘cannibalized’ his own people by attacking the spirit girl’s village. War, greed...he could very well be a Weetigo.
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Member
Joined: 10/26/2008
Posts: 5
Points: 18
Location: Toronto
|
He’s trying to kill Tara to prevent her from telling the story of the slaughter of the village. The murdered spirits can’t speak for themselves and cant rest until what happened to them is known. Tara seems connected to them, they’ve been trying to talk to her, and Masteesis is trying to keep that from happening.
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Member
Joined: 10/27/2008
Posts: 2
Points: 27
Location: Winnipeg
|
The dead wife of the painter saw the warrior too, so he menaces more women than just Tara…
"I do not judge the universe." -- Dalai Lama
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Member
Joined: 10/27/2008
Posts: 4
Points: 54
Location: Brandon
|
Masteesis inhabited Joseph’s (the painter’s) body to kill his wife (Kathryn). That pretty much qualifies him as a Weetigo, right? Possessing to kill.
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Member
Joined: 11/11/2008
Posts: 0
Points: 30
Location: St. Paul
|
Yeah, but there’s no evidence he ate her, so he's not a Weetigo/cannibal.
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Member
Joined: 10/27/2008
Posts: 4
Points: 54
Location: Brandon
|
Unless it's like a metaphorical kind of cannibalism. He ate her life.
|
|
|
Guest |