It's October, so it's time for a cannibal horror cult classic set in the 1840s! Join us as we learn about the Wendigo, military prisons, the origins of the term "Eat me", and more!
Sources:
Green's Dictionary of Slang entry: https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/fuhappq
Google Ngram: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=eat+me&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3
Gail de Vos, "The Windigo as Monster: Indigenous Belief, Cultural Appropriation, and Popular Horror," in North American Monsters: A Contemporary Legend Casebook, edited by David J. Puglia (Utah State University Press, 2022), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv296mnsz.25.
Anthony Wonderley, "The Story of Windigo," in At the Font of the Marvelous: Exploring Oral Narrative and Mythic Imagery of the Iroquois and Their Neighbors (Syracuse University Press, 2009). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1j5d789.10
Robert A. Brightman, "The Windigo in the Material World," Ethnohistory 35, no. 4 (1988): 337-79, https://www.jstor.org/stable/482140
J. Anthony Paredes, "A Case Study of "Normal" Windigo," Anthropologica 14, no.2 (1972): 97-116. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25604874
Roger Ebert, "Ravenous" (1999), https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/ravenous-1999
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenous_(1999_film)
https://www.mcall.com/1999/03/19/ravenous-for-fun-dark-humor-is-lifeblood-of-tale-on-cannibalism/
https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/film-they-all-but-ate-me-alive-1115720.html
"Guardhouse-Military Discipline," NPS, available at https://www.nps.gov/fosc/learn/education/guarddiscip.htm
. "Military Prisons." In Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities, edited by Bosworth, Mary, 601-5. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2005. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412952514.n224.
Leavenworth Visitors' Center, available at https://www.leavenworthks.gov/visitors/page/old-united-states-disciplinary-barracks
Ciera Boyes, "The Realignment of Military Installations for Imprisonment," Available at https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/1212f617608d41eaa26130a9f024fe03
