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Blair Witch or Blair Wendigo? Spoilers

posted 8 years ago by DonnaMedici
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After watching the movie last night, I don't believe the witch is a witch at all, but actually a Wendigo. The actions and appearance of the witch support this, in my opinion.

The Wendigo is a creature from Native American legend. It once was a human, usually a Native American that gets separated from the rest of their tribe or a settler or group of settlers that get separated from the rest of their expedition. After a hard winter in which they run out of food, they inevitably turn to cannibalism, either eating the dead and then killing the living and eating their flesh. When you do this, the legend says you can superior strength, beyond human senses, and unnaturally long life, but you are no longer satisfied by any other food, and over the centuries you become an inhuman monster.

Wendigos live in the forests, often using the trees to stalk their pray. They drag you along the ground before they jerk you up into the trees, where they kill and eat you. Or they kill you and take your body back to their lair, and you're never seen again. Some accounts describe the Wendigo as being unnaturally skinny and tall. They can also mimic human voices and screams. It's one way they lure their prey out to them.

The Blair Witch did all of these things, drawing the group away from the campsite by crying to them in the voices of their friends, dragging them along and jerking them up into the trees. Even that brief glimpse we had of the witch in the house resembled the Wendigo in form. She's also still alive hundreds of years after her presumed death. All of her characteristics are a match to those of the Wendigo.

Would love to hear what y'all think of my theory!

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[–] ehaas-3 8 years ago

That makes sense. I got the feeling in the first one that the entity was called a "witch" simply because it had to be called something and the locals were familiar with traditional witch lore.

[–] DonnaMedici 8 years ago

And it probably gives her the advantage, as long as the people don't suspect what she really is, everything works in her favor. They'll keep wandering into her hunting grounds, prepared to face a witch and completely unprepared to face a Wendigo.

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[–] sillyheart1977 8 years ago

Actually, that is not a bad theory at all. Many of the things you pointed out do point to a wendigo. I am curious though, was the witch as spooky looking as they say and also, do we actually see heather's face at any point during the movie, has long been a curiosity of mine as to what happen to her and Josh and Mike...is this explained or are we given more insight to possibilities of what the witch actually does to people (eating,stashing bodies, ect?) ?

[–] DonnaMedici 8 years ago

You say Heather's face for a brief moment in the beginning, on a videotape. And later you see a form that resembles Heather, which may or may not have been a trick. Maybe Heather became a Wendigo herself and stayed with her maker, or maybe the Wendigo did something to look like Heather. You see a glimpse of the witch for literally a split second, the body was naked but devoid of male or female feature.

It's not really explained but the main character in this movie reveals a new part of the legend, that if you look on the witch, she'll kill you, which is why the characters stood facing the corners. Until they heard a voice that sounded like their friends and turned around. You don't see the witch eating anyone but you do see her jerk on of the group into a tree. Earlier a tree falls (or was made to fall) on one of the guys. His camera doesn't break though, and though it's facing a different direction, it records the sounds of something going at him while he screams in agony, like he's being eaten alive.

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[–] divisionbell-2 8 years ago

Wasn't the whole thing about facing the corners because the killer in the house made kids do that while they killed their friends?

[–] hatsAreForLosers 8 years ago

THIS! That was the original explanation in the first movie

[–] lunchboxattacks 8 years ago

There are some references in the associated games that something had been in those woods for a long time even before the Blair Witch legend. Something evil that caused the aboriginal population to avoid it for a hundreds, if not thousands, of years. If you take these things to be canon, then it's possible it's a little bit from column A and from column B, that it was Elly's ghost and this 'presence' working in tandem, in symbiosis.

[–] DonnaMedici 8 years ago

If y'all want to watch a great movie involving wendigos, check out Antonia Bird's Ravenous, it's amazing!

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[–] RobsBottin 8 years ago

Are you trying to tell the people who created the character that the Blair Witch is not a Witch but a North American demon?

I always raise a smile (and sometimes a laugh) when board members try to re-write what has already been established in the minds of the people who wrote and directed the movie/s.

It's all a deep end.

[–] sillyheart1977 8 years ago

well re-write or not, it is still a good theory... really no reason to come off as a snob about a harmless theory.

[–] DonnaMedici 8 years ago

So what evidence is there supporting her being a witch? State your case.

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[–] Troyal1 8 years ago

A Wendigo doesn't make little stick men and put them in the woods. Doesn't make people stand in a corner for no reason, and it can't make a house that's lone gone appear out of thin air(time travel) like it did in the original. Can't make Little invisible ghost children run around outside a tent.

You been playing too much Until dawn lol

[–] RobsBottin 8 years ago

Nicely put.

As for "State your case" Curse of The Blair Witch, everything is explained and revealed.

Maybe they'll make a film titled 'The Blair Wendigo Project'. Mmmmm.

It's all a deep end.

[–] DonnaMedici 8 years ago

As for "State your case" Curse of The Blair Witch, everything is explained and revealed.

So, in other words, you can't.

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[–] DonnaMedici 8 years ago

I've never even heard of Until Dawn. I've known the legend of the Wendigo since I was a little girl. But I guess it's easier to mock someone's theory than to actually engage them in a discussion.

A Wendigo still retains human cunning, it would do something like the stick figures to mess with its' victims' minds and freak them out. Panicking people are easier to control then someone who remains level-headed. As for making little ghost children run outside a tent, as I pointed out earlier, the Wendigo can imitate human voices and its superior abilities include the ability to move at inhuman speeds.

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[–] Troyal1 8 years ago

Mocking a theory? I'm not mocking anything. I just finished until dawn last night and it has Wendigo in it.

I just don't think that's what it is. The sounds wasn't my point. My point was that the sounds came from something invisible, as it was right beside the tent. Yet there was nothing there visible. Also the time travel is kinda a thing.

Maybe a Wendigo could do that. (Shrugs).

Edit: you ask someone to state their case. I state my opinion and then you get upset when I do? You act like I came in here to try and dismantle your spirit or something.

[–] DonnaMedici 8 years ago

I wish you'd phrased it like that first. You came across as making fun of me.

What time travel?

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[–] Troyal1 8 years ago

I'm very sorry you took it that way. Did you like the movie?

Also play until dawn. Lots of Wendigo

[–] DonnaMedici 8 years ago

It's okay! :) I thought the movie was better than the first Blair Witch. The acting and camera work was better. I thought the moment when the two people with the Confederate flag on their wall wanted to come along with the group (which includes two African-Americans) was hilarious! Everyone was like, you're kidding, right?

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[–] definitive_prankster 8 years ago

Did you really just say 'what time travel'...?

I do like your Wendigo theory.

[–] DonnaMedici 8 years ago

If time travel doesn't involve the Tardis or the Delorean, it usually leaves me a little confused.  I only saw the original Blair Witch and this sequel, was it something they had more obviously in the other movies?

I'm glad you like my theory!

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[–] definitive_prankster 8 years ago

Rustin Parr's house burned down long before either film starts, and yet they each have it in them. Also they stand where the house is at the start of this one and it isn't there, so maybe more 'house appearing' than time travel. BUT then there is also the fact the girl is in footage seen at the start of the film, but it is recorded at the end, so time travel.

But who knows!

[–] jchapter 8 years ago

And also yeah time travel is a MASSIVE plot point in this sequel....

[–] RobsBottin 8 years ago

His theory is complete and utter dog sh*t. Why? Because the creators of the Blair Witch Project created a character called the Blair Witch who was banished by the locals for fairly obvious reasons.

She isn't a Wendigo, she's a Witch and of course she is a fictional character and the OP should refrain from posting idiotic statements.

The End.

It's all a deep end.

[–] jchapter 8 years ago

That's what I was just thinking! I think the filmmakers made a pretty decent and clear history of the Blair Witch. It's really not some Wendigo chilling out in the forest. I also love how some people are like...awesome theory! No...it's all explained.

[–] TheDarkestMinds 8 years ago

Actually this theory sounds pretty legit. Snobs will be snobs. *beep* will be *beep*

[–] DonnaMedici 8 years ago

Yep, they just insult you because they realize they can't back up their own claim, lol!

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[–] DonnaMedici 8 years ago

There you go! That's interesting about the dark magic, I haven't heard that part of the legend before! Can you tell me more about that aspect of wendigos?

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[–] twist_of_fate_04 8 years ago

It's a cool fan theory but that's all it is.

The Blair Witch is a witch. Period.

[–] kellogem6 8 years ago

Why would a Wendigo play around like not hurting people until they look at it? and all the witchcraft crap as well as you figure it would attack and eat anyone going into the forest without waiting..and summoning a house as said before.

also dont remember anything about cannibalism in the movies.

pretty much the only thing pointing at Wendigo is it being skinny, but you can be a lot of things while being skinny without being a Wendigo. the long limbs most likely supposed to refer to that woman accused of being a witch and having weights put on her limbs and left out in the forest to die.