Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Slender Man" in English language version.
He is both spirit and real being, but he can also glide through the forest, like a moose with big antlers, as though the trees weren't there..
He says that the Tall Man Spirit / Walking Sam seems to be telling the young people on the reservation to take their lives.
So, what seems to be happening here is a cultural 'remix' between the older myth of the Tall Man/Suicide Spirit which already existed among Native Americans prior to the rise of the World Wide Web, and the newer, more potent icon of Slenderman introduced to these communities through the pervasiveness of new social networks; all this coupled with the 'copycat' contagion effect which arises during a cluster of suicides or mass shootings.
He says that the Tall Man Spirit / Walking Sam seems to be telling the young people on the reservation to take their lives.
So, what seems to be happening here is a cultural 'remix' between the older myth of the Tall Man/Suicide Spirit which already existed among Native Americans prior to the rise of the World Wide Web, and the newer, more potent icon of Slenderman introduced to these communities through the pervasiveness of new social networks; all this coupled with the 'copycat' contagion effect which arises during a cluster of suicides or mass shootings.
Ray Owen, son of a Dakota spiritual leader, told a reporter [...] 'We needed a sign to put us back on track, and that's why the Big Man appeared.'
Ray Owen, son of a Dakota spiritual leader, told a reporter [...] 'We needed a sign to put us back on track, and that's why the Big Man appeared.'
