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(Yesterday, 11:41 AM)quintessentone Wrote: Are you trying to link these behaviours with alien abduction?
1. Changeling Behavior (Fairy, Elf, or Spirit Replacements)
In European folklore (Irish, Scottish, Norse, Germanic, Slavic traditions), children who behaved strangely were sometimes believed to be changelings—fairy or goblin substitutes left in place of a stolen human child. These children displayed bizarre habits:
- Eating strange things – grass, ashes, soil, coal, or raw meat.
- Unusual appetites – eating excessively or refusing human food.
- Speech delays or advanced speech – either never learning to talk or speaking in an old, unnatural way.
- Unusual growth patterns – growing too fast, too slow, or never seeming to age.
- Excessive crying or eerie silence – crying all night or staring blankly for long periods.
- Fear of iron or fire – reacting violently to iron (a fairy deterrent) or behaving strangely around fire.
- Sudden personality changes.
- Apathy or detachment from loved ones.
- Sudden knowledge of strange languages or wisdom they shouldn’t know.
- An overwhelming need to wander into forests or isolated places.
2. The Feral Child (Raised by Spirits, Animals, or Fairies)
Stories of wild children exist across cultures, where a child was thought to be raised by supernatural beings. Symptoms included:
- Preferring animal behaviors – walking on all fours, howling, or eating raw plants.
- Fear or rejection of human company – running away from people.
- Extraordinary physical abilities – heightened senses, unusual speed, or resistance to cold.
- Speaking a strange or unknown language – sometimes interpreted as the "language of spirits" or a lost tongue.
- The "Wolf Children" of India, raised by wolves, ate raw meat and never adjusted to human life.
- The Kipchak legends of wild steppe children, believed to be raised by spirits of the wind.
- Roman myth: Romulus and Remus were raised by a she-wolf.
3. Spirit or Demon Possession (Signs in Children & Adults)
Various cultures saw strange behavior as evidence of spirit or demon possession. Common signs:
- Eating non-food items (grass, dirt, coal, bones).
- Uncontrollable laughter or weeping.
- Sudden, unnatural knowledge – speaking unknown languages or reciting prophecies.
- Eyes changing color or becoming luminous.
- Extreme aversion to religious symbols or rituals.
- Speaking in different voices.
- Unnatural physical strength.
- Seizures or trancelike states.
4. The Call of the Shaman (Symptoms of a Future Mystic or Witch)
In many indigenous and mystical traditions, odd behaviors were seen as signs that a person was meant to become a shaman, healer, or witch.
- Strange eating habits (grass, herbs, dirt) – Seen as the body preparing for plant-based medicine.
- Hearing voices or seeing spirits – Could be ancestral spirits calling them.
- Sleepwalking into nature – Leaving home at night and returning with no memory.
- Unusual sensitivity to animals or nature – Communicating with animals or trees.
- Sudden illnesses or fevers followed by wisdom – Initiatory sickness, common in Siberian and Mongolian shamanism.
- Mongolian shamans often underwent a sickness where they stopped eating normal food before their initiation.
- Native American shamans were sometimes chosen after childhood trances or interactions with spirits.
5. Fairy & Supernatural Influence (Signs in Children & Adults)
Some folklore suggests that humans can fall under fairy or supernatural enchantment, leading to:
- Eating fairy food (grass, flowers, wild plants) – said to bind a person to the fairy world.
- Dancing wildly at night – as if in a trance (linked to fairy revelry).
- Suddenly disappearing and reappearing – often with no memory of time lost.
- Unnatural beauty or glowing skin – sometimes seen as a fairy or supernatural mark.
- Becoming obsessed with the forest or water – feeling drawn to liminal places (crossroads, rivers, or caves).
- Wearing iron to repel fairies.
- Carrying salt or rowan berries.
- Avoiding eating anything offered in a dream or the woods.
6. Pica & Its Occult Interpretations
Pica is a medical condition where a person eats non-food substances (dirt, ash, clay, or grass). In folk medicine and occult traditions, Pica was believed to be caused by:
- A spirit’s hunger manifesting through a human.
- A sign of being between worlds – having one foot in the mortal realm and one in the supernatural.
- A curse or hex – in some African and Haitian traditions, eating strange substances was linked to spiritual attack.
- Drinking enchanted water or milk from a black cow.
- Burning special herbs (sage, mugwort, or wormwood).
- Binding charms or prayers to break supernatural influence.
7. Signs of Ancestral Influence or a Past-Life Echo
In some spiritual traditions, unusual eating habits or behaviors are believed to be a sign of an ancestral spirit or past life connection.
- Grass-eating – May indicate a past life as an herbivore or a connection to agricultural ancestors.
- Sudden musical ability – Sometimes seen as an ancestor’s talent surfacing.
- Knowing things never learned – Could be an old soul’s memory returning.
- In West African traditions, odd behaviors in children may indicate they are "returning spirits" of deceased ancestors.
- In Hindu beliefs, certain habits (like vegetarian cravings in a meat-eating family) could indicate karma from a previous life.
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