Talk:Hexenbiest & Zauberbiest/@comment-27523265-20180405233705

Does anyone have any knowledge of what we should consider the Hexenbiest spirits to be? As hexenbiests are born hexenbiests, it seems unlikely that it is a possessing spirit, but on the other hand we have seen obvious interactions with related spirits when Adalind was carrying out the contaminatio ritualis. I personally regarded them as a manifestation of the individual's power kind of like a force ghost. Perhaps the spirits contain the power, knowledge, and experience of their wielders and gather in death in some manner of netherworld. It could then be argued that Adalind was appealing to a semi-sentient collective of hexenbiest spirits which conveyed some of its power to her, but mostly to her daughter and juliette. The other spirits we have seen certainly didn't behave in the same way as these. Also, going off the idea of the power absorbing qualities of the hexenbiests, it would explain some of the odd instances of their powers. For instance, when Adalind broke one guys fingers, she wasn't actively attempting to do so, but it was still done and very methodically so. As she wasn't in control, it could be that the semi-sentient power asserted itself for a moment. This would explain why their powers sometimes require concentration and other times it requires almost no input on their part.