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I was watching an episode of the TV program In Search Of Monsters (Foxtel Animal Planet channel) which related to the Wendigo. I looked this up on the internet, and while it is a creature of native American folklore which has an isatiable hunger for human flesh, I also read this:

 

As a concept, the wendigo can apply to any person, idea, or movement infected by a corrosive drive toward self-aggrandizing greed and excessive consumption, traits that sow disharmony and destruction if left unchecked. Ojibwe scholar Brady DeSanti asserts that the wendigo "can be understood as a marker indicating... a person... imbalanced both internally and toward the larger community of human and spiritual beings around them."

 

Does  this remind you of anyone?

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