User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V4E8 - Questions, Answers(?) - Impressions/Recap/@comment-73.69.5.166-20170109165707

Okay, I don't know if you're already working on the next episode's Impressions/Recap, so I don't know if you'll even see this, but I'm gonna say it anyway: THEY ARE NOT PRONOUNCING SALEM'S NAME WEIRD!!!! I have lived in Salem, Massachusetts (ie the one famous for the witch trials, ie the one Salem the character is named after) since Fall of 1999. I can assure you, THEY ARE PRONOUNCING "SALEM" CORRECTLY!!!

Aside from that, I hope you're right about your Confirmation Bias theory; "being a bad luck charm" Semblance is BS and removes the most plausible/likely explanation for Qrow's apparent Animagus-ness. The "Crows are bad luck" thing is probably something RT invented as a uniquely-Remnantian superstition, analogous to black cats being bad luck irl (and Blake is a black cat, so it'd be assholish if they just used the black cat-bad luck superstition as then they'd basically be saying "Blake is a bad luck charm"). I think that he said that so he could avoid dropping another bombshell on their already-blown and probably a little fragile atm minds, "Oh yeah, one last thing: there are people in the world who can turn into birds, and I'm one of them. K Night!"

It's possible the ancient peoples of Remnant thought crows/ravens/corvids in general were baby Nevermores or were the things that evil spirits possessed to turn into Nevermores and that's where the superstition came from.

So, are we just assuming that Ghira's Faunus trait is fur? His hair, beard, chest, and seriously hairy hands all point to it.

Finally, I think, given the context, Qrow used "humanity" as a catch-all term for "Humans and Faunus", as the latter is a mouthful that woulda been awkward and in a meta-sense coulda been detrimental to the flow of Qrow telling the story. Just a hypothesis.

-He who is AWESOME