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=== Prejudices and Superstitions ===
Gnolls are a surprisingly laid-back and fair people when it comes to prejudices. They do not blame individuals for the transgressions of their race,<ref name=":18" /> they have no problems with homosexuality or interspecies couples,<ref name=":30" /> and gender segregation is a foreign concept to them.<ref name=":27" /> In their meritocratic society, an individual’s actions and worth speak louder than their race, gender, origins, beliefs, or anything else. And when a Gnoll does take issue with something they see, they generally don’t heckle, or make a scene about it.<ref>[[Chapter 5.34]]</ref> They just walk off. ...Well, most of the time, anyway.<ref name=":0" />
There is occasional name-calling between City Gnolls and Plains Gnolls over their lifestyle choices,<ref name=":60" /> but not to the point of open hostility.<ref name=":9" />
There are, however, certain superstitions. And at least in these, Gnolls are just as susceptible as Humans to discriminating against those they believe to be responsible, even without direct proof. Younger Gnolls are more likely to blindly believe in such tales, while the elders tend to be more measured.<ref name=":41">[[Chapter 2.40]]</ref><ref name=":35" />
The prime example of this in the source text is white fur. It is said that no Gnoll has white fur, except those touched by disaster,<ref name=":41" /> those who have lost their tribe, those who have survived calamity, and those who are said to bring it, earning white furs the epithet of "Doombringer".<ref name=":41" /> This superstition is not wholly unfounded: Mrsha, who used to be brown, actually turned white when she became the [Lone Survivor]<ref name=":21" /> of the Stone Spears tribe, which was ambushed and slaughtered by a Goblin army.<ref>[[Chapter 2.35]]</ref> Another, very similar case occurred during the eradication of the Saltstone tribe, where more than a dozen surviving children spontaneously turned white.<ref name=":7.10 K" /> There is clearly a real, supernatural effect involved in the appearance of a white Gnoll, likely involving traumatic stress and/or the severing of their tribal bonds.
However, Gnolls in the source text rarely question the exact circumstances of how Mrsha gained her fur color. Instead, they repeatedly make her coloration the scapegoat for just about anything and everything at their convenience,<ref name=":41" /><ref name=":21" /><ref name=":35" /> regardless of whether she was even present when it happened. After Mrsha actively saved the lives of a number of Gnolls, the worth she gained through that act seems to have superseded most of the animosity towards her - but, of course, now the Gnolls simply attribute the doom of their enemies to her fur color instead.<ref name=":31" />
