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fan-of-all-doms · 2 years

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I just thought of something...

We know that this statue in the Owl House is in Luz's hometown of Gravesfield, Connecticut, and it's most likely the Wittebane brothers:

And we know from Hollow Mind that Wittebro fell in love with a witch:

So that got me thinking...

An average guy...

From Connecticut...

In love with a powerful witch...

Hmm... now where have I seen this before...?

OH YEAH

I'm not sorry

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cryptidtumbleweed · 1 year

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So, I’m sure that by now at least some of my followers know that I LOVE looking into meanings of names and comparing them to the characters that carry those names, to see if there’s any purpose or hidden meanings.

Today, I decided to look into some Toh characters - aka, brothers Wittebane. I don’t know if anyone’s pointed this out yet, so I wanted to share what I found!

Philip

So, the name Philip means “warlike” - and yes, it also means lover of horses but I think we can ignore that meaning in this context :’)

Philip is a manipulative, ruthless man willing to go to the extremes to reach his goals. He’s willing to hurt people, to kill people and he places himself above others with the justification of his actions being for the greater good. He’s strategic and thinks his plans through, seemingly assuming he knows the best. His dedication to his goals, to his own personal victories is unwavering and he isn’t afraid to sacrifice friends and family on the way.

Philip Wittebane is a warlike man - his name is rather appropriate for him.

Caleb

Caleb means many things, including faithful, brave, bold and whole-hearted. We don’t know much about him, so analyzing his name’s meaning was (and is) more difficult.

So, what do we do know about him? We know he used to be a witch hunter. We know he saw the magical side of the Demon realm and saw good in the people he previously viewed as danger. We know he was close with a witch - and if the paintings in Philip’s mindscape are to be believed, he started - or was about to start - a family with one.

We also know that he was a good man. Every Grimwalker Philip made held his good nature - resulting in each and every one of them betraying him eventually. We don’t know how similar he and Hunter are by personality, but I think it’s safe to assume they do share some core traits, based on the pattern there has been with the Golden Guards and Philip’s relationship.

Another thing that speaks for his goodness is how after seeing Philip’s curse (or... whatever the palisman soul situation really is) he still fully accepted him - we see that in the mindscape paintings as well. He is loving towards his younger brother until the end, no matter how much Philip despises his relationship with the Demon realm and Evelyn.

It’s not much, but it’s something. I’m going off on only the little bits we know about him, but I do think that he’s deserving of the meanings of his name. He was faithful till the end - to Philip, to Evelyn. He might’ve been a witch hunter, but he was willing to give them a chance to understand them. (Of course, being a witch hunter is a big big yikes and there’s obviously problems with that kind of a view towards a group of people... but that’s not really the point here)

And he was brave. He took a chance on these people he’d grown up seeing as the enemy and fell in love with them. He was brave enough to step away from his old beliefs and learn.

So, yes. I think Caleb Wittebane was a brave, whole-hearted man.

Now, have the names been chosen on purpose? Considering the amount of detailing in this show, I think it’s very possible. It would be one hell of a coincidence if they weren’t.

Their last name

Yeah, I wasn’t just gonna go on about their first names and not consider the family name too. Wittebane isn’t an actual last name, so it was way more difficult to look into.

First thing I found was a vague explanation on some name meaning site. It claims “witte” stands for white and “bane” stands for menace. Which uh... I don’t know about that being the designed meaning of the name :’)

Or well, the two words combined anyway. I found a post on Reddit which I feel more drawn to. The poster had searched up what “witch” was in old English. And as it turns out, wiċċe is the female noun for the old English language’s version of witch.

So, my own conclusion is that their last name is supposed to mean something along the lines of “Bane of Witches”. It’s obviously much more open for everyone’s personal interpretation, so I’m open for future analyzing on it.