Board Thread:Q & A/@comment-4097293-20150226082755/@comment-26232195-20150407001227

@(P) Macabros77 Sorry that I missed that earlier discussion about Ferula tingitana, if that's what you're referring to. I took Lurkenfrau's word about FT's abortifacient properties but, when I checked Wikipedia, that and the herb's menstruation inducing properties were the only medicinal uses mentioned. The connection between FT and silphium is also controversial evidently. Not saying that Wikipedia is the most authoriative source but, the article is well referenced. Here's the link: Ferula tingitana I don't quite understand the distinction you're making between the entwining twin spell and the mirror image spell. I remember that one of the lines of the twin spell was "To a mirror image (Spiegelbild) it will make," but, I don't remember there being a separate mirror image spell. Adalind didn't use Juliette's blood in her potion but she did use her hair. Hair isn't the best source of DNA but, it will work if you get enough root cells. Also, when Elizabeth tasted the green mixture, she said that there was some of both of them (Adalind and Juliette) in it. Even if the basis for the spell is ultimately supernatural magic, there still has to be some template for the phenotypic transformation that takes place and to me that says genetics. As for why Adalind might not have added Ferula tingitana to her potion, I still say the simpliest explanation is that Adalind is a ditz, LOL! I could fill pages with anectdotes about students (and sometimes professors!) who screwed something up by skipping steps in a procedure - sometimes even when there were only two steps! Adalind seems like just the kind of person to take shortcuts and shoot herself in the foot or, in this case, in the uterus. So I still say that Juliette becoming a Hexenbiest was a side effect of the entwining twin spell, just like they've been saying on the show, and that the transformation was due to an alteration in the expression of certain genes. The question is, what did Elizabeth know and when did she know it? As a very knowledgable Hexenbiest she almost certainly must have known that Juliette's transformation was a possible side effect. It might be that the transformation is only possible if the person has a genetic predispostion to be a Hexenbiest but, wouldn't a powerful and sensitive Hexenbiest like Elizabeth be able to sense that? I agree with Lurkenfrau that it's very suspicious that Elzabeth reduced the amount of Ferula tingitana in the potion before Juliette underwent the spell.