Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-27523265-20160103230339/@comment-26520629-20160104143612

my personal theory is that the primordial, archtypal hexenbiests were humans once who somehow unlocked a mojority of their cerebral capacity (thus manifesting in several if not all psychic abilities as pyrokinesis, telekinesis, telepathy etc) through the use of zaubertrankes, seeing as how the word zaubertrank itself is german, it could link back to the origins of the wesen species, or at least to the beginnings of the hexenbiest ancestral history. even though i stronly believe that after the hexenbiests were successful in obtaining their unholy powers (of course, not without side effects), they probably began to experiment on other humans, creating other kinds of wesen. if we dont take the comics as canon and not stick to the theory whereby ancient wesen who hailed from egypt and sumeria (as the anubis) are the percursors to modern animal-type wesen.

the first hexenbiests were probably deformed, their woged appearance permanent, which may have given rise to the first grimm brothers fairytales about an ugly hag, but overtime perhaps, having perfected their zaubertrank, these first hexenbiests began to turn other girls into hexenbiests that althought created a split (liminal) personality or soulself, allowed them to appear as normal human beings. or that the children of these ugly hag-like hexenbiests did not take after their mother, hiding their true grotesque forms beneath a human visage (if you watched charmed, remember cole and his alter ego balthazar that was able to be vanquished? leaving behind a human remnant? thats as close to an example as i can get).

i personally dont like the hexenbiest spirit theory, only because grimm doesnt need to be the new vampire diaries.