
What if the pope sent her over here, again, to find out about the Indians for him, to find out about their religion and all their superstitions, and how they went to hell and she was to find out that the Indians did in fact believe in something called the Wendigo, which was a sort of ghost that ate you from the inside and your soul wound up living inside it, and so they would have sex with the Wendigo, and then it would eat them, they were afraid of it, that’s why the Indians killed each other, so there’s a part of the origin of the Wendigo legend that is based in true Wendigo behavior, and so the pope sent her to find out about this so he could learn about this evil Wendigo spirit, and maybe they would figure out a way to destroy it.

Maybe she had a love affair with some priest or Indian holy man, that’s probably where the Indian legends about priest-witches come from, that it was her love that gave her the power to kill the Wendigo.

Because they were afraid of it, for the same reason that humans are afraid of sharks, the Wendigo was an evil spirit that ate your soul, and they had this one Indian tribe where everybody made love to the Wendigo and that’s where the legends about Indian priest-witches came from, and you can figure out that this was probably where it all began, and the pope wanted to kill it, so the pope sent her over here to kill the Wendigo spirit for him.

And maybe that’s what the painting in the Vatican is supposed to be about: She’s sent to kill the Wendigo, and a dead Wendigo is not a Wendigo, is what they would figure out, because maybe the pope’s theory is that when the Wendigo dies, it ceases to exist, because it becomes the Indian’s soul and its body is not what is making it exist.

But the problem is that the pope only sent her to talk to one tribe, and not the whole tribe, because he was afraid of what the Wendigo might do, and he was afraid that they might not agree to killing it.

So maybe he sent her there and a lot of the Indians didn’t really want to fight, and so she went around and visited all the different tribes in New York and all the Indians of New England, to see if they would have sex with her and the Wendigo and befriend her so that she could try to kill the Wendigo with them, and the way she got the Indians to get in bed with her was to tell them that the pope had sent her to help them, to help all of the Indians, because they were poor and hungry and had no food, and they had a disease and she was the best doctor to come all the way from Rome to cure them with her herbs and medicine.

And then the Indians believed her and sent her back to the pope to try to kill the Wendigo, but she only succeeded in getting the Indians in bed with her, and by the time she had cured all of the Indian tribes and the pope was ready for her to go and kill the Wendigo, the whole tribe had killed the Wendigo with her help and they didn’t need her anymore.

And then she returned to Rome, and the pope sent her back to New York to kill the rest of the Wendigo, and that’s when she went up to the great pond and turned into a bear.

And that’s where the painting of Joan as a bear is, and that’s why I can’t have a relationship with a woman, the priestly thing gets in the way of the whole plot, and I suppose that I wouldn’t have a good enough reason to have sex with Joan, she is probably too pure, you know?


What mysteries of Chateaugay Lake haunt you?