Wednesday: Outcast Abilities.

 

Wednesday characters supernatural powers 

As season one stated, the four main groups (at least In Nevermore)

Are Fur's, Fang's, Stoner's and  Scales.

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Werewolf, Vampire, Gorgon and Siren..

But there are a lot more then just these four groups from shapshifters to psychics..........

Psychics abilities.🔮

Telekinesis

Physical animation of drawings through thought manipulation 

Precognition.

Clairvoyance

Dream  visions

Can see ghosts

Visions (good or bad, depending on the psychics outlook)

Good visions make you a dove, bad/darker visions and your a raven.

Wednesday is a Raven, same as her grandmother and aunt. Her psychic visions of the past and future are  darker usually about something bad ..murder,death ect that has happened or is going to happen.

 In season one she isn't able to control these visions on demand, though season two shows her increased proficiency with it though at a cost. Pushing your psychic powers to far or over using them results in black tears and epilepsy. Improper use or lack of proper training can also lead to madness.

Wednesday experience vision's of past or future events  when touching an object that triggers her power. She inherited her powers from her mother.

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Werewolves 🌕🐺

(Fur's) 

Increased strength and heightened sense especially hearing and sent.

Enid Sinclair,the first werewolf we see can change her nails into claws at will, and has above average strength in human form.

All werewolves transform on a full moon.

They also really enjoy meat, even owning steak scented candles,...at least Enid does.

Werewolves like actual wolf's are pack creatures, their family is their pack, though they can also form an individual  pack (group of close friends) with others they get along well with. Most werewolves wolf out (transform) by puberty. however some are late bloomers not changing until mid to late teens and there seems to be a small minority that never wolf out. Werewolves that can't change are eventually driven from their paks and live alone (lone wolf's). Even rarer is the Alpha Wolf, not to be confused with the pack alpha.

An Alpha Wolf is  a fur that can wolf out without a full moon . Their wolf form is larger then an average werewolf a d they are the strongest werewolf's.

They are considered Outcasts among the other wolves and are even hunted by them .

If a young alpha Wolf's Out under a full moon they risk possibly getting stuck in wolf form forever.

(Enid Sinclair is an Alpha)

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Vampires🧛‍♀️

(Fang's )

Extremely long lives as stated in season one some of them have been in Nevermore for decades, not immortal but far longer life's then others. Vampires like Yoko are able to walk around in the sun, unlike traditional vampires, as long as they wear protective sunglasses to shield their eyes from bright rays.

they are however allergic to garlic and their strength is likely above average if not superhuman. (. Not shown in the show ..yet )

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Gorgon's🐍🪨

(Stoner's)

Snake's for hair and the ability to turn other's to solid stone (temporarily)

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Sirens🧜‍♀️

(Scales)

Can manipulate others with their voice (Siren Song) though it can be suppressed with a special necklace or an object with Corinthian coral to negate the effects. They also grow scales, webbed hands and mermaid like tails when in water .

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Hyde's 👹

They look just just like anyone else, until their power is activated (unlocked). Someone has to put the Hyde trow enough physical or emotional trauma to awaken a Hyde at which point they become the Master and the Hyde will do their bidding.

A Hyde has a normal appearance until they are unlocked after which they can transform at will or at their master's command into a fierce and dangerous  monster . Once unlocked they can't survive without a master.

Super strong, unpredictable and violent. Because of this Hyde's are banned from attending Nevermore.

Shapeshifters🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️

The ability to perfectly transom into another person. The first person we see in the show with this power is Nevermore's late Principal Larissa Weems. In the original comics she was a babysitter for the Addams family.

 Agnes DeMille's friend Josephine Wilks also has the shape shifting ability.

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Pyrokinetic🔥

(Pyro)

The power to create and control fire at will. 

The new principal of Nevermore, Berry Dort had this ability.

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Vanishers 👀

The ability to completely disappear at will.  

Agnes DeMille (Wednesdays Stalker/friend and self proclaimed number one super fan is the only one we've "seen" with  this power so far, much to Enid's announce.

Agnes Powers 

Vanisher ability: She can make herself and any objects she is in contact with invisible.

Partial invisibility: She doesn't always make her entire body invisible; at times, only her hands and other objects were visible while the rest of her body remained hidden.

Agnes can hide herself and anything she's touching, however she  does not negate sound as shown when  Fester noticed that she was following him and Wednesday.

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Zombies. 🧟‍♂️

Dangerous, always hungry brain eating monsters.

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Sparks ⚡

Electrokinesis.

The ability to generate and control electricity at will.

The spark they generate can range from a mild static shock to a power burst strong enough to shut down a building's power grid.

They are also capable of unleashing powerful focused jolt's of lightning from their fingers

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(Seems like most of the male Addams family members have this ability.)

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Avians 

🐧🦉🦜

(Controls birds)

This outcast ability let's the user control large groups of birds...

Can be used for spying or attacking other's.

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Bug Control 

🐝🐛🦟

(apkinesis)

The ability to control bees and other insects a version of psychic/telepathic abilities..

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DaVincis ⚙️

Intelligent and creative outcasts with the ability to build/ create whatever they can dream up..(also seem to have a telekinetic power).

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The Faceless students..👻😶

Faceless is a term used to refer to a type of outcast that has no features on their faces, including no mouths, noses, or eyes.

They may be a type of yokai called The Noppera-bo or  faceless ghost, a Japanese yōkai that looks like a human but has no face.

Another theory is they are shapeshifters in their natural form.

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Lurch.🗿

The Addams family's ever loyal butler.

Tall, Strong, sturdy and silent (only talks on grunts) he may be a type of Frankenstein monster, or some other higher functioning undead.

Could also  possibly be a type of golem or gargoyle. Not sure.

 It hasn't been stated what kind of outcast he is yet.

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Other outcasts mentioned in the series but not yet shown.

Yeti's... 

Abominable Snowman is  considered a derogatory term.

 (Yeti's have been extinct since the 1950s)

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Minotaurs. 

(Extinction date Not stated)

And Cyclops.

(extinction date,Not stated

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As mentioned during the Outcast Day of Remembrance they are all now extinct.

They're physical abilities and appearance has not yet been shown in the series beyond the figures we see during the procession, which are possibly over exaggerated representations of them.

Aside from that we can only guess based on their mythical counterparts.

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Extended Family.

Cousin Itt. 

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Cousin Itt. (Ignatius Itt )

A member of the Addams family (possibly Immortal or at least has a very long life),is a short bipedal being completely covered in long, thick hair. He is often seen wearing a bowler hat and dark, round sunglasses. 

He only speaks in a high-pitched gibberish that is unintelligible to outsiders but perfectly understood the rest of  the Addams family. 

Unlike the main characters, Cousin Itt was developed by producer David Levy for the 1964  Addams Family television series, not by the original cartoonist Charles Addams. 

Has not appeared in Wednesday yet, besides a portrait in the Nightshades hideout. He was one of the original Nightshades.

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Thing (Thing Addams)

Thing is a disembodied hand from The Addams Family. Created by Charles Addams.

He  serves the family as a helpful "handservant" and is often seen performing various tasks. While originally depicted as a more mysterious, extradimensional entity. In the old comics he can usually be seen looking through the banuesters.

Modern interpretations typically show Thing as a free-roaming hand that moves on its fingers.  In the series Wednesday Thing is the sentient right hand of a DeVinci Isaac Night (Tyler's Uncle)

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Originally created by Charles Addams for his Addams Family cartoons, things first appearance was in his 1954 book Homebodies. He was a multi armed being with tentacles, later changed to just a hand. 

Thing is in the  window on the right.

Yokai, The Hibagon .. Bigfoot of Japan.

 

Japanese Bigfoot,The Hibagon 👣🇯🇵

It seems that every country or at least most have a version of a hairy manlike cryptid that roams the forests or mountains ..

North America's Bigfoot/Sasquatch the Rock Apes of Vietnam, the Yeti of the Himalayas and so on..

Well Japan is no exception, the Japanese version is called the Hibagon..

The first reported sighting was in Hiroshima Prefecture in what is now Shobara City during July of 1970.

FIRST SIGHTING...

July 20, 1970, that a man in his 30s said he saw from his car an unusual two-legged creature walking down a mountain road in the Yuki district in the former town of Saijo, now incorporated into the city of Shobara, before it slowly retreated back up the trail after noticing it was being watched.

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Second and third Sighting..

A man who was cutting grass near his home early in the morning of July 23, three days after the first sighting, claimed to have seen a creature in a grassy area with a "human face." 

Another man on July 30 called out to a person whom he believed was a relative walking along a footpath to a rice field, but it turned out to be a "gorilla-type monster.

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In 1971 the government special office to take reported sightings this continued until about 1975 when the sightings started to drop eventually leading to the office being shutdown there were a total of 29 local sightings from 1970-75.

Later sightings of a similar creature took place  in the neighboring city of Yamano, it was called the yabagon it was sighted infrequently for a few years leading people the believe the Hibagon had simply moved to a new location however the yabagon seemed to have disappeared too as it has not been spotted since 1980.

It's believed to live near Mount Hiba in the Chūgoku Mountains. 

Like Bigfoot/Sasquatch the Hibagon walks upright on two legs, standing about 5 -6 feet or up to 1.5 meters tall and very muscular build for it's size.

Eyewitnesses have described the unidentified figure as resembling a gorilla covered in dark brown bristles

 Their bodies are completely covered in black, gray, or dark brown hair.

 Their faces resemble an inverted triangle, and they have bulging eyes that slant upwards. Their voices resemble a dolphin’s call.

There are many theories on what the hibagon actually was.

Some suggest it was a  large Japanese macaques, black bears, a humans in a suit or possibly an  alien being but no one is entirely sure...

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The sightings eventually got the attention of the local authority's and media. Leading to a newspaper article..

A former reporter, then Shobara bureau chief of the Chugoku Shimbun, who wrote the article, was quoted in the Hiroshima-based daily as saying, "I didn't take the first call seriously because I thought it was just a hoax, but then I got another call from someone else who gave an eyewitness account."

After meeting separately with the three eyewitnesses to hear and compare their stories, the reporter said all appeared shaken up, with one saying, "I can't live here anymore." Another complained of people accusing him of "faking" the story and not believing him.

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A footprint that was cast in 1970

A plaster cast of "footprint" believed to belong to the Hibagon was cast on December 16, 1970 and was kept in the chief's office of the Shobara Police Station, which is part of the Hiroshima Prefectural Police.

the Shobara Police Department has donated the footprint to the tourism association, which moved it to JR Bingo-Saijo Station.

 The tourist association used the donation as an opportunity to start recruitment for a "Hibagon Explorers" fan club that has seen about 40 people from around Japan join.

A tour of the mountain road where the first sightings took place was planned for may 2024.

Today the Hibagon has become a symbol of the town, and signs with its  likeness can be seen everywhere.

Ghost Fire.

 

Japanese and Korean Ghost

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There are stories of supernatural flames or lights in almost every culture.

 Some believe they are fairies or ghost's others think they are monster goblins or demons. 

 The more modern belief is that it's nothing more than swamp gas or ball lightning.

But whatever you call  it's a global phenomena.

 Japanese folklore, such as  Hitodama (literally a  "Human Soul" as a ball of energy), Hi no Tama (Ball of Flame), A few other yokai associated with fire or strange lights are the Kasha, Nekomata, Aburagae, Koemonbi, Ushionibi, etc. 

All theses lights are always associated with graveyards or swamps. 

Kitsune ( demon fox) and other yokai or demons, are also similar to the European will 'o the wisp.

When two kitsune are married they produce kitsune-bi (狐火),  meaning 'fox-fire' in celebration,  Though they can also do this whenever they like not just during a celebration's.

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In Korea the lights are often associated with rice paddies, old trees, mountains or even in some houses and were called 'dokkebi bul’ (Hangul: 도깨비 불), meaning goblin fire (or goblin light). 

They were deemed malevolent and impish, as they confused and lured passersby to lose their way or fall into pits at night.

Same as a Will of the wisp in bog's and swamp's will lead you off the path.

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More on the Dokkebi in a upcoming post ...

Japaneses myths: The White Butterfly....

 

 

 

 

                                      The White Butterfly

An old man named Takahama lived in a little house behind the cemetery of the temple of Sozanji. He was extremely amiable and generally liked by his neighbors, though most of them considered him to be a little mad. His madness, it would appear, entirely rested upon the fact that he had never married or showed any  desire for intimate companionship with women.

One summer day he became very ill, so ill, in fact, that he sent for his sister-in-law and her son. They both came and did all they could to bring comfort during his last hours. While they watched, Takahama fell asleep; but he had no sooner done so than a large white butterfly flew into the room and rested on the old man's pillow. The young man tried to drive it away with a fan; but it came back three times, as if loath to leave the sufferer.

At last Takahama's nephew chased it out into the garden, through the gate, and into the cemetery beyond, where it lingered over a woman's tomb, and then mysteriously disappeared. On examining the tomb the young man found the name "Akiko" written upon it, together with a description narrating how Akiko died when she was eighteen. Though the tomb was covered with moss and must have been erected fifty years previously, the boy saw that it was surrounded with flowers, and that the little water tank had been recently filled.

When the young man returned to the house he found that Takahama had passed away, and he returned to his mother and told her what he had seen in the cemetery.

"Akiko?" murmured his mother. "When your uncle was young he was betrothed to Akiko. She died of consumption shortly before her wedding day. 

When Akiko left this world your uncle resolved never to marry, and to live ever near her grave. For all these years he has remained faithful to his vow, and kept in his heart all the sweet memories of his one and only love. Every day Takahama went to the cemetery, whether the air was fragrant with summer breeze or thick with falling snow.

 Every day he would visit her grave and pray for her happiness, swept the tomb and set flowers there. 

When Takahama was dying, and he could no longer perform his loving task, Akiko came for him. That white butterfly was her sweet and loving soul."

 

Cross in the Sky. ☁️✝️☁️

On Friday April 18th 2025 (Good Friday) people witnessed a cloud shaped like a glowing cross in the night sky over Sydney, Australian.

The cross appeared to be glowing while being lit up by the moonlight breaking through, created a striking and symbolic image that many found moving, especially given the timing that close to Easter. 

However, meteorologists trying to rain on everyone's parade claim it was a nothing more then a natural optical phenomenon caused by light interacting with turbulent weather patterns. Whether you see it as a religious sign or simply a beautiful natural effect doesn't matter, it still looks cool.

Solitude ..

 

Solitude

BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;

Weep, and you weep alone;

For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,

But has trouble enough of its own.

Sing, and the hills will answer;

Sigh, it is lost on the air;

The echoes bound to a joyful sound,

But shrink from voicing care.

Rejoice, and men will seek you;

Grieve, and they turn and go;

They want full measure of all your pleasure,

But they do not need your woe.

Be glad, and your friends are many;

Be sad, and you lose them all,—

There are none to decline your nectared wine,

But alone you must drink life’s gall.

Feast, and your halls are crowded;

Fast, and the world goes by.

Succeed and give, and it helps you live,

But no man can help you die.

There is room in the halls of pleasure

For a large and lordly train,

But one by one we must all file on

Through the narrow aisles of pain.

Luna: Goddess of the Moon 🌕

            🌕Moon goddesses 🌕           

The moon has captivated humans since the beginning of time.

Every culture in every corner of the globe has some myth or legend regarding it's origin or the god or goddess's that represents it.

Luna the Roman Goddess of the Moon.

Luna is the Roman goddesses of the moon, and her Greek counterparts we're often formed in a triadic manner hence Luna was associated with two further goddesses, Diana and Hecate. Luna was the goddess in heaven and of the full moon (Greek counterpart being Selene), Diana was the goddess on earth and of the halfmoon (Greek Artemis) and Hecate (or Hekate) was the goddess in the underworld and of the dark moon.

Diana was originally a goddess of fertility and was worshipped by women as the giver of fertility and easy births.

 She was also the goddess of nature and of hunting. 

Hecate was the underworld goddess of magic and witchcraf, she is often linked with Luna and  Diana but is also further association with other goddesses linked to chastity and childbirth such as Prosperina and Juno Lucina, an ancient maternal character. The latter may even have been a more central figure within the triad of moon goddesses with Hecate being a later addition.

The multiple facets of women, femininity and childbirth were believed to be associated with the phases of the moon: the new moon represented the maiden goddess, Diana, always new, virginal, reborn and ready for the hunt whereas the waxing moon increasing in size represented the fertile mother goddess, pregnant with life. 

The darkening moon reflected the wise crone or witch, Hecate, with power to heal and transform.and Luna being a literal representation of the moon and sky in all it's beauty.

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HEKATE (Hecate) was the guardian of the crossways and goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, moon, ghosts and necromancy. She was the only child of the Titanes Perses and Asteria from whom she received her power over heaven, earth, and sea. She also represents the Maiden, Mother and Croon with statues often showing three faces.

The Romans believed that the moon controlled many other facets of  life including the wind, rain, tides, animal life, mineral growth and earthquakes. Suetonius (Roman historian AD69 - AD122) wrote ‘The moon is a great magnet of vapour and all substances characterised by moisture. When the moon grows so do all fruits, and as it was, so they also shrink’. 

Luna was also believed to have the power to mask reality, to pierce illusion, to awaken intuition and to spark visions. This latter arising from association of the night and the moon with dreams.

 She was also known as a patron of solutions which came to people in dreams, when the subconscious mind processes information.

🌕Other Moon Goddess's 🌕

Rhiannona A Welsh, Celtic Goddess of the moon, horse's fertility rebirth and forgiveness.

Devana, A Slavic Moon Goddess also associate with nature, forests and hunting. She the equivalent of the Greek goddess Artemis and the Roman goddess Diana.

Selene Titan goddess and personification of the moon. She was depicted as a woman riding sidesaddle on a horse or driving a chariot drawn by a pair of winged horse's 

 

Goddess Myeongwol; Korean goddess of the moon her beauty shins brightest during the full moon.

Chang'e Originally known as Heng'e, is the goddess of the Moon and wife of Yi, the great archer. Renowned by her beauty, Chang'e is also known for her ascending to the moon with her pet Yu Tu, the Moon Rabbit and living in the Moon

These are only a few of the more well known goddess's. But there are So many more. I will do separate posts on some of the other later.