"Actually, the Mic Mac indians soured the ground.
When they Mic Macs cannibalized one of their own and buried their remains in the Mic Mac burial ground, that it was caused it to go sour."
Technically true.
"The Wendigo just came after and touched you while you were sleeping, giving you the taste for human flesh."
That was how it was described in the novel. The actual Wendigo legend, however, varies from tribe to tribe. Usually a person becomes a Wendigo by eating human flesh during the harshest of winters, where desperation makes the host vulnerable to being influenced by the Wendigo spirit. When a person becomes a Wendigo, their soul is gradually pushed out, leaving nothing behind but the twisted thing that was their body, essentially making it a "living death". In some stories, Wendigos grew larger the more they consumed, even kaiju-size, like what was depicted in King's story. In terms of "Pet Sematary", what happened with the burial ground was that in all likelihood, a member, or perhaps members, of the Micmac tribe had resorted to cannibalism. When they buried the cannibalized victims, the Micmacs also exiled the perpetrators to the forest, where they perhaps fed on other animals living there, if not each other. This in turn does make one wonder if the shapes Louis saw in the novel were those of other Wendigos, or if it was singular one that managed to outlive the others.
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