Citations:kastoranthropy

English citations of kastoranthropy

the delusion that one is a beaver; the condition of being a werebeaver

• 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:

  The next morning he is found down-hill from his House, beside the fishing-Pond, lying among remnants of gnaw’d Shrubs, with fragments of half-eaten water-lillies protruding from his Mouth. ‘Kastoranthropy,’ Professor Voam shaking his head, ‘And haven’t I seen it do things to a man. Tragick.’

• 2002, Anne Mangen, Rolf Gaasland, Blissful Bewilderment: Studies in the Fiction of Thomas Pynchon →ISBN, page 220:

  […] one of the not uncommon cases of kastoranthropy, or, were-beaverality: […]