Talk:Geisterdamen/Mad

'Albino'
I dispute your assertation that the Geisterdamen are albinos. The definition from Wikipedia reads: "Albinism (from Latin albus, 'white'; see extended etymology, also called achromia, achromasia, or achromatosis) is a form of hypopigmentary congenital disorder, characterized by a partial (in hypomelanism, also known as hypomelanosis) or total (amelanism or amelanosis) lack of melanin pigment in the eyes, skin and hair, or more rarely in the eyes alone. Albinism results from inheritance of recessive alleles." There's nothing to indicate that there are pigmented Geisters for the main population to have become pale due to recessive reinforcement. Also, there's none of the usual albinistic traits - which includes vision problems. The two scouts who found Agatha and Lars playacting were neither squinting nor wearing any eye protection at all. Normal human albinos (there's a twist in words!) usually wear dark glasses outside, even in the filtered European sunlight. Nor does albinism cause the type of effects on the eye that the Geisters display, meaning a solid white eye. Albinos have a pink iris (blood colour only with no masking pigment) and a black pupil, which is black because it's effectively the inside of the eyeball and therefore like looking into a hole.

In short, other than a similarity in lack of dark pigment, there's no reason to believe the Geisterdamen are human albinos at all.