I went to a book reading tonight by a very cool part Native Canadian author named Joseph Boyden. He was talking about his book, Through Black Spruce, and also about his first book Three Day Road. Both are books that are centred around a certain Native Cdn family. In both books there is a mention of the Windigo. Someone in the audience asked him to explain what it meant to his culture and how it could be applied to modern culture. He said (what we SN fans already know), that it is a powerful creature that feeds on human flesh and was once a man. But he also said according to his culture, a Windigo is attracted to greed and overindulgence. If you hoard or show glutteny the Windigo will come to your village. He sited a certain character in Through Black Spruce named Soleil who was a NY model who surrounded herself with beautiful people, expensive things, exposure and always wanted more. He then said that Paris Hilton represents the modern Windigo because she always wants more and feels power through overindulgence. He jokingly said over the years she gets skinnier, her hair gets brighter and her nails grow longer.
I had a good laugh about his parallel since she's going to be on SN soon.
Pretty funny coincidence!!