Mother Zeal

Mother Zeal was the ghost of Abigail O'Malley's mother, representing an idealized and saintly version of herself. Mother Zeal haunted the Velvet Lady in 1873, after her death earlier on the ship, and it was there that her madness attracted the larvae of a spiritual parasite which attached itself to her in the form of a "perfect" infant. After a confrontation between Abigail and her mother, the larvae pupated and devoured the ghost, becoming False Abigail, a malevolent love-spirit.