User blog comment:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/SYUTK's V4E8 - Questions, Answers(?) - Impressions/Recap/@comment-73.69.5.166-20170109165707/@comment-4010415-20170110030209

Yeah, for some reason, we tend to pronounce Salem like "Say-lum" because "Say-lehm" would sound weird.

Huh. That is actually a pretty good idea for where the superstition came from. After all, WoR: Grimm said that people used to think Grimm were the angered spirits of animals, so who knows what other superstitions the ancient people of Remnant cooked up?

If Ghira's Faunus trait is fur, I can only imagine baby Ghira being born with fur on his chest and hands, and that'd be... weird. He could just be a really hairy guy with retractable claws, for all we know.

Er... No, not so much. "Mankind" is the catch-all term for "Humans and Faunus". Humanity is the term for Humans, and only Humans. Plus, the shadow puppetry only showed Humans, with no animal features in sight.