- Apart from the common diseases, several disorders can put you in total astonishment.
- You may start thinking as “How can such a situation occur”? Boanthrophy
- In this article, we have brought you a disease named “ Boanthrophy” suffering from which a person starts behaving like a cow or ox.
About the disorder.
Boanthrophy is a psychosomatic ailment in which a person starts believing himself to be in a category of bovine ( cow, buffalo, ox, etc).
As per religious terms.
- A brief account of Boanthrophy can be taken from the bible.
- According to the context, King Nebuchadnezzar II of the Neo-Babylonian Empire was first known to have suffered from Boanthrophy (symptoms seen on an irregular basis).
- This is mentioned in the Book of Daniel which declares that the king was ” driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen”.
- As described by Carl Jung, ‘Nebuchadnezzar is a whole reverting deterioration of a man who has tricked himself.
The historian account.
- As per the Persian traditions, the Buyid prince Majd al-Dawla has a misunderstanding that he is a cow. Hence, he started making the sound of a cow.
- He even kept on asking to be killed so that his flesh could be eaten off.
- However, he was cured by Avicenna.
Spiritual clarifications.
- As detailed by psychologists, boanthropy is classified as one of the subtypes of zoanthropy under the diagnosis of Clinical lycanthropy.
- Some of the matching symptoms of Boanthrophy are also observed in patients with schizophrenia, emotional depression, anxiety, restlessness, and bipolar illness.
- Dreams do also play an important role in causing Boantropy.
Medical terms.
Doctors detailed that boanthropy comprised multiple symptoms of porphyria and paresis that are triggered by late-stage syphilis.
How it is popularly described?
- In popular culture, people do relate it with the story of “The Cow, an Iranian movie by Dariush Mehrjui” in which the character, Masht Hassan, tends to live in a barn and eat hay after being made to consider that his adored dairy cow has run missing. In his misunderstanding, he starts speaking on the cow’s behalf, calling for under the appearance of the cow that her master (Hassan himself) is still seeing over her from the exterior of the cowshed.
- Another aspect is considered from the episode of the anime Revolutionary Girl Utena, the young girl Nanami who acts like and ultimately makes over into a cow after getting a cowbell as a gift. She misleadingly assumes it to be extravagant jewelry.
- The themes of this episode are mainly feminist that uses a version of the famous song Dona, Dona in the perspective of Nanami’s being a cow to relate to the deprived communal treatment of women.
- Nanami’s makeover may also be understood as a sign of her self-objectification due to her admiration of her look and keen submission to her brother’s mistreatment.
- In the film spin-off of the anime, Nanami seems firmly in cattle form while other characters are observed in the predictable human form.
