I mean, she invented the whole Harry Potter Expecto Patronum thing but she doesn't actually own the Latin word "patronus" The idea of a "patron spirit" or "patron deity" (a "tutelary", if you want to be nerdy) is very old and commonhttps://twitter.com/ArnallLabrador/status/1270761358083096577 …
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Honestly there are so many alternatives to the term "spirit animal", which is a weird neologism from the neo-shamanic grift fad from the 1980s (people like Michael Harner translating the word "totem" as "power animal" etc) Daemon, familiar, tutelary spirit
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Also the word genius referred to a guiding spirit of intellect that could bestow inspiration! Better than clumsily appropriating "spirit animal"
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We should really change the word genius back to that original meaning yes
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