(10-14-2015, 01:04 PM)Adriano Neres Rodrigues Wrote: I will try to mix grimm and religion to talk about magic. But I am not talking about a specific religion since my focus is not to debate if God exists or not or things like that.
As far as I know all religious or most of them are based in the idea that the human being is not only a material being, but that we have a spiritual dimension and that this dimension is connected to a superior being. Many call this superior being as God... Others call it as an energy or something... My point is that religion say human being has a spiritual dimension and because of that dimension we can alter nature using our spiritual dimension.
As many fairly tales came from middle ages where church was strong, I think the magic in those stories came from this dimension. The church, for example... Used to say witch's (in grimm, the hexanbiests) used to connect with devil to develop their powers. That is way the witch's were burned in middle ages.
I want to say that using middle ages ideas, magic is a spiritual connection between hexanbiest and some spiritual energy that allow them to alter nature.
When Nick blood "killed" hexanbiest side in Adelaind it just broke the connection. Maybe It doesn't mean that Adelaind DNA was changed.... The same way when Nick lost his grimm powers. Apparently his DNA was still the same, but his eyes were some kind of sick.
How can we explain spiritual dimension using DNA? I have no idea. Maybe some mind power...
Well, I am just writing ideas. Maybe it can help someone to develop a better theory.
I meant to respond to this very interesting post the other day, but got caught up in the magic discussion. However, since that seems to have faded and the thread is going nowhere near its topic, I thought I would pick up this train of thought.
I don't want to get into a religious debate here. However, I would like to talk about good versus evil. For the purposes of talking about evil, I will use the devil as the example.
Adriano, I know of the spiritual dimension you are speaking of. When I was growing up, it was called a soul. I was taught that we all have one.
Regarding the witches of old, the church made them into devil worshipping people who were in league with him. They would brew potions, speak incantations and transform into other humans or animals. However, they could not do this on their own. They had to have the devil's assistance, and the only way to do that was to sell their souls to him. One's soul is very important to the devil, he has all the time in the world to wait, so he'll do whatever he can to make that soul his.
We know there were good witches too, and people who weren't witches at all but accused anyway. They were all persecuted, unrightfully so. I know at least once Grimm has brought up persecution and witches.
The witches in Grimm seem to be rather stylish, in both dress and attitude, with the exception of Adalind. She doesn't seem all that stylish to me. Maybe it comes with age. They are also cold, exacting, and ruthless. I have yet to see one perform a spell just for the good of it.
According to old stories and even some of the movies I've seen, the devil marks his own. All hexenbiest witches have a dark u shaped birthmark under their tongue. Could this be the mark of the devil?
Is the hexenbiest spirit an emblem that allows these hexenbiest to carry out their spells and transform? Is it some kind of emblem? Maybe it wasn't Nick's blood that banished the hexenbiest. Perhaps it was simply Adalind's belief that the blood could banish the hexenbiest and so it did. M
Maybe the hexenbiest spirit is like spirituality. A person can lose their spirituality if they lose their belief.
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