Stiles’ real name and his possible connection to The Wild Hunt.
Initially, this post was supposed to be dedicated to Stiles’ name only, but as I went deeper into my research, I’ve come across some interesting facts about The Wild Hunt that sort of support my theory, so I’ll share my thoughts on those as well.
This theory is based on the following assumptions:
A. Stiles’ name starts with M, doesn’t end with ienim, is very hard to pronounce. He was named after his paternal grandfather, not Claudia’s father.
B. Will Wallace didn’t lie about Maciwoda not being Stiles’ name.
C. Most importantly, Stiles’ ancestors were Jewish.
In the recently released scene from 6x03 Sheriff Stilinski mentions that his father’s name is Elias (or Eliasz in Polish). This name originated from the Hebrew name Eliyahu meaning “my God is YAHWEH”. Eliyahu was a Hebrew prophet. This is what made me think that Stiles’ real name might be Polish-Jewish. Oh, and because of this: “Jews who converted to Christianity were given surnames such as Zieliński". Zielinski? Sounds a lot like Stilinski.
Knowing that Stiles’ name isn’t Polish translation of “mischief”, I’ve decided to translate this word into Hebrew instead and then use the English equivalent of Hebrew letters to form a name. Nothing made sense, so I tried a different approach.
These [x], [x], [x] articles explain the origins of Polish-Jewish given names and surnames, I won’t go too much into that. Here’s the part I focused on:
Parents normally choose from a long list of traditional names which may come from a Christian name (a Biblical name or a saint’s name) or a Slavic name of pre-Christian origin.
I looked into Biblical Hebrew names starting with M and here’s what I found:
Mattityahu (Mateusz or Maciej in Polish) means “gift of YAHWEH”. He was one of the twelve apostles. Malkiel (the Polish name Myloslaw sounds alike) means “my king is God” in Hebrew. This name is a cognate of Elimelech (which looks like it could be one of the forms of Eliyahu, and Stiles’ name is supposed to be related to his grandfather).
Now, the problem is that none of these names mean “mischief”. It was believed that Yahweh, or Jehovah, meant “God of mischief” at some point, but I’m pretty sure it turned out to be a transliteration mistake.
However, there’s one Polish name—Mecimir or Męcimierz—that can be translated as “he who opresses peace”. Isn’t mischief something that causes annoyance, discomfort and harm or, in other words, disrupts the peace? Also, Mecimierz is certainly something that even I struggle to pronounce, I wonder what it looks like to native English speakers (:
There are some other names, such as Minogniew (”one whose anger is fresh”), Mscibor (”revenge” + “battle”), Mscigniew (”to avenge” + “anger”) and the popular choice Mieczyslaw (”sword” + “glory”), but they can hardly be interpreted as “mischief”, in my opinion.
As I was searching for possible names, I’ve come across some interesting quotes about The Wild Hunt which convinced me that my theory about Stiles having Jewish roots wasn’t totally crazy.
In the Norse pantheon the leader of the Hunt is Woden (Odin), who careered across the sky followed by his pack of hounds in full cry. What were they hunting? In Norse mythology anyone who crossed their path was fair game. He was liable to be snatched up and transported to a distant land, and he must never speak of his experiences, for even to mention the Huntsman meant death. When the Huntsman became identified with the Devil his prey consisted mainly of Jews, Infidels and Unbaptised Children, though other mortals who put themselves under his power by their own misdeeds could also be the quarry.
This article states that Hitler identified himself with Odin. If I’m right about the victims of The Wild Hunt, those two have surely got one thing in common. Another thing that bugs me is that we’ve been repeatedly reminded that the Nazi werewolf is a big part of S6. Moreover, Stiles’ grandfather presumably participated in World War II. Also, didn’t the victims of The Wild Hunt look like Jews so far?
I might be reading too much into all of this and Jeff will never go down that road, but, to quote Stiles Stilinski, YOU CAN’T TELL ME THIS IS JUST SOME SERIES OF IMPOSSIBLE COINCIDENCES.
I’m sorry if none of this makes sense, but I tried.mp3.