Source: https://x.com/Sjmthinker/status/2106226098346529003

OMG She has the perfect Disney princess voice!!❤

My wife drew Wednesday.

Clinical lycanthropy: an exceedingly rare psychiatric syndrome where an individual believes they possesses the ability to transform into a wolf, or can be used as an applicable term for zoanthropy in general.

the show references real world serial killers who were assumed to have clinical lycanthropy, or serial killers with epithets referencing werewolves:

“It was originally designed for a schizophrenic werewolf, who went on a fullmoon killing spree in the summer of ’92.”

what makes that specific date interesting is the fact that there were two prominent cases of werewolf-related serial killers throughout the 90s; such an occurrence is otherwise rare, let alone two cases in a single decade.

the first killer wasn’t documented to show signs of clinical lycanthropy, but he was nicknamed the “Werewolf of Angarsk” due to the brutality of his killings. His real name is Mikhail Popkov, and he is suspected of killing roughly 90 women and girls in Siberia, taking place from 1992 to 2011.

An American based serial killer named Jack Owen Spillman III was convicted of brutally killing 3 victims, with his crimes spanning from 1994 to 1995. once arrested, he admitted to a cellmate that he would stalk his victims, imagining himself as a werewolf while pursuing and murdering them.

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diagnoses associated with clinical lycanthropy are: schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, psychotic depression, and other psychotic disorders. Some cases of clinical lycanthropy were related to neurological conditions. Clinical lycanthropy may be considered as a cenesthopathy. There is clinical overlap with other delusional misidentification syndromes, like experiencing the delusion that others around you possess physical aberrations. this is correlated to facial recognition impairments.

it has also been hypothesized that the full moon can affect sleep patterns and the circadian rhythm, which was used to show rapid-cycle bipolar disorder being associated with the full moon, and patients with paranoid schizophrenia being admitted during that phase. This lends credence to the idea that clinical lycanthropy is a culture-bound syndrome.

the indicators of clinical lycanthropy may be relevant in which it may inspire severe psychiatric and neurological symptoms in Enid’s psyche. Environmental factors of clinical lycanthropy are probable, as traumatic experiences may have a relationship with the contents of the disorder. In this case, her state of fixed lycanthropy while surviving out in the woods would be the catalysts of said neuropsychiatric symptoms.

While watching The Tale of the Skull Tree, I noticed two little things. The first is that, once again, we have this whole eye thing (https://www.reddit.com/r/Wednesday/s/AAjVMvRW1i)... and in this story, it’s the left eye. The story says that, if you listen closely around the left eye of the Skull Tree, you can hear the ticking of the mechanical heart.

The second thing is that when Isaac draws the model of the heart, we can see him writing the proportions as fractions. Why is that interesting? Because of the Eye of Horus. For those who read my last post, I also talked about the Eye of Horus. In Egyptian mythology, it’s an eye that was magically restored. According to a traditional interpretation, each part represents a fraction BUT the funny little detail is this: if you add up all the fractions of the eye, you don’t get 1. There’s still a tiny part missing, traditionally attributed to magic, that makes the eye truly whole.

With Isaac’s mechanical heart, we don’t have that problem. The proportions are 1/5, 2/5 and 2/5, which add up to 1. And yet, even though his heart works, the story clearly tells us that his soul changed, that he became cold and calculating, so... maybe what’s missing is the magic that ultimately binds everything together and preserves... the soul? Anyway, that was my little observation of the day. 😉👀

P.S. When the tower explodes, we see two ravens flying away.... Symbolism for Morticia and Gomez? Two ravens that have actually been watching the whole story since the beginning, for centuries?? Or did the ravens just get scared by all that noise? 😉 Idk, and you?