Seems skeptical, at best, if the psychosis is even real and not just a retroactive diagnosis based on third hand story telling. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo
No, the indigenous people who created the “mythical creature” say that they mean it literally to describe a real thing and that thing is the psychosis. The modern diagnosis comes from their description of the psychosis.
They’re not exactly mythical. It’s also a description of a type of psychosis that leads to cannibalism.
Seems skeptical, at best, if the psychosis is even real and not just a retroactive diagnosis based on third hand story telling.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo
Either way the mythical creature came first.
No, the indigenous people who created the “mythical creature” say that they mean it literally to describe a real thing and that thing is the psychosis. The modern diagnosis comes from their description of the psychosis.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Fiddler