| Mariphasa lupina lumina | |
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| Mariphasa lupina lumina | |
| Type: | Plant |
| Availability: | Uncommon item |
| Owners: | Wilfred Glendon |
| 1st appearance: | Werewolf of London (1935) |
Mariphasa lupina lumina is a fictional plant featured in the 1935 feature film, Werewolf of London. It has also been identified as the wolf flower.
Description[]
Mariphasa lupina lumina: Also known as the wolf flower, it is a strange selenotropic, phosphorescent flower, which grows only in Tibet. It is said that it takes its life from the moon. Botanist Dr Wilfred Glendon and his colleague Hugh Renwick traveled to Tibet in search of this elusive plant. When Hugh Renwick asked a traveling priest whether such a flower really existed, the priest warned him that there are some things that is best not to bother with. Regardless, they succeeded in finding it and brought it back to England.
A man named Dr Yogami visited Dr Glendon to speak of the flower. He spoke about its mythical properties and that a blossom from the flower could temporarily forestall the effects of one suffering from lycanthropy. Glendon refused to reveal how he had been attacked by a werewolf on the night that he first discovered it however.
Dr Glendon later learned that unless the petals from the Mariphasa were utilized, any who suffered from being a werewolf would be forced to kill at least one human being each night of the full moon.
Notes & Trivia[]
Though made up, the name is definitely referring to wolves (lupina) and light (lumina). 'Phasa' is obviously referring to phases. 'Mari' is a bit harder to pin down. Usually as a prefix it'd refer to the sea, which would make it roughly translate as "sea phase wolfish light". If they meant it to refer to the moon, Máni (the personification of the moon in Norse myth) would be most appropriate.