Do mentally disordered serial killer types really make posed figurines out of the skeletons of small animals such as squirrels and cats? I come across this theme occasionally in the media. For example, I once read a nonfiction book about a teacher who suspected that one of her students was a victim of satanic ritual abuse. When the police investigated, they found that the child’s father did this as a hobby. On the TV show Dexter this concept once appeared in the storyline. A suspected serial killer was arrested, and inside his home were several animal skeletons arranged in anthropomorphized poses. I know there are people out there who actually do this, but is this hobby always associated with creepy mass-murderer types?
Can’t be - it’s just a subset of taxidermy. It may be that a statistically significant proportion of creepy dangerous people are into it, but that doesn’t necessarily infer back the other way.
As an example of this being done without any dark motives…