Talk:Hearth's Warming Eve/@comment-4671980-20111217173332/@comment-4671980-20111217183119

Why is it not relevant? The idea of the "windigo" was not created by the show from whole cloth, but derived from a much larger system of mythology and belief. The wendigo was a metaphor for the breakdown of social order, the failure of co-operation amongst people in a struggling community faced with starvation in the cold, and their willingness to turn on each other for their own survival. Wasn't that the point of the episode as well?