Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-26430898-20150524213016/@comment-31350033-20170220062722

24.150.82.174 wrote: What about a raccoon? They mentioned raccoon wesen in Season One, "Organ Grinder". We haven't seen one except in one of the comics/graphic novel, but Monroe referred to the wesen species as Waschbar, when first meeting Freddy Calvert at the Spice Shop. "Haven't seen a Fuchsbau in a Waschbar's age, myself," a play on the southern expression "in a coon's age". It's the German word for raccoon (a New World critter transplanted to Europe in the 1800s as a collector's curiosity, I believe, now a huge nuisance in Germany since they escaped the menagerie and became an invasive species!), meaning "wash-bear" due to its habit of washing its food in streams or ponds. I think they'd be deceptively cute Wesen in appearance as are Fuchsbau (plural Fuchsbauer?)  -- but also like Fuchsbau likely to be very tricky (Monroe again, warning Nick about Freddy: "By the way, he's a Fuchsbau...so count your fingers after you shake hands.") and dangerous when confronted. Raccoons are the bane of campers and poultry-keepers everywhere, not to mention they regularly tossed Nick & Juliette's trash cans, as we saw when Nick went to investigate the noises going on outside that night. They have those furry bandit-masks for good reason! We had a mother raccoon & her litter of 3 doing home invasions through our pet doors to raid the cat's food, and they were only mildly annoyed by bear spray!!! So yes, that would be a very interesting Wesen species to see in a Grimm episode!