October ’s one-year full moon goes bya few names : the Harvest Moon , the Hunter ’s Moon , the Blood Moon , the Travel Moon , and the foreboding Dying Grass Moon , which , agree toAmerican Horror StorySeason 6sage Elias ( Denis O’Hare ) , is when colonial spirits from the preoccupied colony of Roanoke like to " slip through the veil between the shadow world and ours . " To polish off . Of course to murder ! They ’re bloodthirsty ghosts soak with the magic of ( peradventure ) the Devil herself . What did you think they were pop off to do when they slew through the veil ? slay Cabo ?
American Horror Story : Roanoke"Chapter 4 " continued to tease out the backstory that clears the fog on this mystic " realism show " andties the time of year , directly and thematically , toAHSinstallments of the yesteryear . The Dying Grass Moonis real , takes topographic point in October , as depicted in the show , and quetch off a six - day lunar cycle that prepares most of a America for a dimly fire up Halloween . OnAHS , it ’s the time when The Butcher ( Kathy Bates ) can commit her homeland with fresh mortal parentage . If we can read between the line of descent , it may also be a peak moment in another cps – one that make Lady Gaga ’s " Witch of the Woods " extremely horny . Yes , there seems to be more to tonight ’s sensual , satanic moment between the pop star and Cuba Gooding Jr. , and it could changeAmerican Horror Storyforever .
Fans suspected that , considering how each late episode of the time of year paired up with pastAHSthemes ( Murder House ’s Piggy Man andthe pig head killer bruit to be Evan Peters;Asylumand the evil ghost nurses;Covenand Leslie Jordan ’s return as Cricket ) , that The Witch ’s backstory could be settle down inAmerican Horror Story : Freak Show . Not quite . We did learn from Elias that Matt and Shelby ’s place was built by " Edward Phillipe Mott , " a callback to Season 4 ’s Gloria Mott , Frances Conroy ’s heiress , and her boy Dandy , the wannabe serial killer . Gaga stand apart from the past .
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At least , the show ’s direct past . Last week , I thought " The Witch " was a clever cognomen for Satan , and that Gagacould emerge as the all - powerful being of theAmerican Horror Storyuniverse . time of year 4 does n’t refute that possibility , although Cricket directly dismiss the idea that the Roanoke colonists practiced " devil worship . " No , when this 16th - century bunch of loons ruin a piffling girl in the head with a rock , they did it in the name of something much older , much scarier , much more hoodlum than the Beelzebub . " Yeah , we get it , thing were so cool back in your day , " pronounce all the millennials in Roanoke .
That spirit was Gaga ’s Witch , a druid from somewhere in Europe who emigrated to early America , only to become the defendant of a witch hunt . After taking a knife to her captors ' pharynx , she became one with the forest , a combining of " Old World and new , " a force to be reckoned with . Why she ’s " DTF " at this current minute has yet to be explained by either her past times or present .
But she ’s quick to go , and seizes the present moment with Matt with the faintest , aphrodisiac inside - a - dirt - dugout voice ever . " Chapter 4 " went hard on the gore – thank the censor powers that be thatWalking Deadcleared the Browning automatic rifle take forAmerican Horror Story : Roanoketo rip Cricket ’s bowel out with a sum hook – but did n’t skimp on this risque present moment of seduction either . Cuba Gooding Jr. and Lady Gaga went at it , though it ’s important to observe : Matt still had his drawers on when photograph out of the spell by Shelby ’s shrieking cries for aid . Will The Witch ever get some ?
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This could be more fundamental than you think . As touched upon by Sarah Paulson ’s intermediate character inMurder House , then potentially inverted when Gaga pamper her satanic baby in the sixth sequence ofHotel , The Witch may be face to hook up with a deathly man in rules of order to spawn the Antichrist – a spiritual myth withclose ties to Irish druid traditional knowledge .
One bird of Jove - eyed Redditorthrowsfuel on this hypothesis fire . obviously the closed captions for tonight ’s episode name Gaga ’s Witch " Scáthach , " a mythologic Irish warrior who mat herself in plot of land of bloodshed and child - making . The name roughly translate to " shadowy one " ( and , as a another commenter append , vocalize mistily like the the Hebraical name of the Angel of Death inAsylum : Shachath ) .
Mostly , " Chapter 4 " leaves us with more question about The Witch than solvent . Was Elias in reality alive and well when he encountered Matt and Shelby , or was he a ghost retainer who staged his own " death " to drive them towards The Witch ? Though the colonists take apart Cricket before he could rattle off his spell , could the Louisiana medium still relay his password to Matt and Shelby from beyond the grave ? He was down during the Dying Grass Moon , after all . Was the Uber driver related to Francis Conroy ’s Myrtle Snow from Coven ? Does it matter?American Horror Story : Roanokemay just be a reference fest for the rice beer of boggling our minds .
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Whatever Gaga ’s disembodied spirit is really after , Matt and Shelby should be all but defenseless against her skipper program . possibly it ’s the Antichrist , maybe it ’s something more sinister , but expect it to ripple through the reenactment flashbacks and into the babble head present day . Creator Ryan Murphypromises a major " twist " by the sixth instalment , and I can only imagine the hunger for sexual practice has everything to do with it . But everything is up in the airwave . The only solid revelation we ascertain in " Chapter 4 " is that the " CROATOAN " ward works – as long as it ’s not used during the Dying Grass Moon . Or against Satan . Or to will oneself to Cabo . Never works .
American Horror Storyreturns next week with an episode that duplicate down on the paranormal phenomenon . The show also returns next year with Season 7 , per a new promulgation this workweek . So if the Antichristdoesarrive , she / he / it may cast a phantom for eld to hail . Maybe that ’s when Evan Peters finally designate up ?
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