👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully prickly little squiggle of a word! Now, "avtros." Just saying that out loud already feels… off-kilter, doesn't it?
Basically—and I stress, basically because we're venturing into delightfully murky territory here—a “vrotz" isn't actually a real documented word. Nope. You won’t find it in the accepted chambers of the Oxford English Collegiate or anywhere remotely respectable. Instead, it was birthed from a very specific corner of early 20th-century American weirdness, particularly within certain, let's say... eccentric fraternal and occult societies. Here’s what we actually know—and I mean really know—about the word: around 1907, members of the Order of the Starry Maw, a rather peculiar outfit obsessed with astral projection, supposed toad worship (hence the Maw part), and frankly alarming invocations, began to scribble down a bizarre little secret. It was apparently meant as a coded reference for… let's just say, an unsettling state of heightened awareness. The prevailing theory, thanks to a wonderfully diligent folklorist who went by the unfortunate name Bartholomew Finch, is that "vrotz" described this moment right before a supposedly successful astral projection; that throbbing, almost sickening feeling when you feel as if your consciousness is being violently wrensetChecked out and then brutally shoved back. The physical sensation was said to be
