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[sc:wptop]Hello, SleepyHeads! This week on Witness Prophecies, we discuss Sleepy Hollow Season 3 Episode 12, entitled “SIns of the Father” which originally aired on February 26, 2016. It’s all about “Daddy” relationships on Sleepy Hollow, as we learn more about both August Corbin, Joe’s father, and Ezra Mills, Abbie’s and Jenny’s father.
After being “teased” for several weeks, we finally meet Ezra Mills, who tells Jenny that he dealt with his wife’s illness by drinking and running away from them. He joined the Navy for the medical benefits but when he returned six years later, he knew his wife was dead. The unasked question is: why didn’t he try to find and reconnect with his daughters? We don’t get the answer in this episode, but we do watch Abbie also meet with her father. She is more concerned about her emotional state since she returned from her time in the catacombs, as she continues to struggle with the effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Abbie’s questions of her father make us believe that Abbie is concerned that she may be succumbing to a mental illness in the same way that the disease plagued her mother. Ezra asks Abbie if he can help her, be there for her, but she gently rebuffs him, and says perhaps he can help her later. After all this time, can we trust Ezra Mills? Is he now sincere in his desire to help his daughters and to be part of their lives, or does he have another agenda?
Our second “daddy issue” came to us compliments of Atticus Nevins, who showed up alive in Sleepy Hollow. When we last saw Nevins, he appeared to have been vanquished into a puddle of blood by Pandora, but she apparently only took his spleen. Nevins told our team that Joe’s father, August Corbin and Nevins had served together during the Iraqi War, and in 1991 found a stash of gold bullion that Nevins planned to steal. The ghoul ambushed them, and Corbin saved Nevins’ life. Nevins had previously told Joe that his father was self serving and dishonest, and that Joe was just like August, but he now told the truth. Everything he had said before about August was a lie, and August Corbin was an upstanding individual through and through. 
This encounter with the ghoul started August on his lifelong obsession with all things supernatural. Joe knows he would have given anything for one more moment with his father, and he realizes that Nevins loved his father as a brother. Joe accepts that his father cared for many people, and did not love Joe less because of it. We can see the characteristics of August in Joe – care for other people, supporting them, encouraging them, standing behind them. We see this in the way he supports our Witnesses and in his care for Jenny. We’ve also watched him encourage Jenny to be fair with Sophie Foster. Joe is clearly his father’s son.
We saw the end of Randall Martin this week, as the ghoul killed him by thrusting its arm through Randall’s body. A gruesome end to a character that would have killed the members of our team if he had the chance.
Atticus Nevins presumably met his demise this week as well. After we realize that he was using our team to procure August Corbin’s files for his own purpose, he was apparently shot by the mysterious FBI Director (Danny’s boss) who has an interest in Abbie Mills and her career. It now seems that this evil director has his own agenda for placing Danny Reynolds in the position of Abbie’s boss, and we do not yet know his purpose in seeking information about the artifacts or with whom he may be working. Before he died, Nevins gave the director information about 9 sacred sites which August Corbin had researched – but of these sites, we don’t know where they are, what they are, nor their significance.
Most troubling this week was Abbie’s obsession over the rune symbol she saw in the catacombs. Her flashbacks seem to be increasing in scope and intensity, and she appears to be embracing the rune symbol. It is not clear if the rune is attached to an evil purpose and/or being, or one that will ultimately help her, but at the end of the episode she tells the “rune” that it saved her and she belongs to it – whatever or whoever that is. Just as troubling is that Abbie is not confiding in her partner, Ichabod, who has sworn to stand by her side through her trauma. No doubt that Crane will soon discover her rune drawings and help us understand what is happening to our Abbie!
History Lesson of the Week – The Golden Scarab
The Scarab beetle was a popular insect during ancient Egyptian times, and was believed to be the guardian of sacred temples and crypts. They were ruthless predators, said to hunt without mercy.
It was called the dung beetle because of its practice of rolling a ball of dung across the ground. The Egyptians believed that their sun god, Ra, rolled across the sky each day, transforming bodies and souls, and observed this behavior in the beetle. They equated it with the ball of the sun being rolled across the sky. They confused this balled food source with the egg sack that the female dung beetle laid and buried in the sand. When the eggs hatched the dung beetles would seem to appear from nowhere, making it a symbol of spontaneous creation, of rebirth or regeneration. In this role it was associated with the sunrise. Khepri was the Egyptians’ scarab headed god.
Amulets of scarabs were common in Ancient Egypt and were used for personal or administrative seals, for political or diplomatic purposes, and incorporated into jewelry. They were also used to protect mummies. They were often inscribed with designs or hieroglyphs, and most were originally green or blue in color. They were very common by 2055BC.
Link to Ancient Symbols website
Link to Wikipedia website discussing Scarabs
March 4, 2016 – Season 3 Episode 13 – “Dark Mirror”
And SleepyHeads – don’t forget about the book, Sleepy Hollow – Creating Heroes, Demons & Monsters, by Tara Bennett and Paul Terry. You can order it on Amazon, by using the Golden Spiral Media link.
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