Citations:Snapewife

Noun: "(fandom slang) a female adherent of the mid-2000s new religious movement Snapeism"

 * 2014, Zoe Alderton, "'Snapewives' and 'Snapeism': A Fiction-Based Religion within Harry Potter Fandom", Religions, Volume 5, Issue 1, page 257:
 * The Snapewives are an extreme facet of a much larger fandom milieu.
 * 2018, Markus Altena Davidsen, "The religious affordance of fiction: a semiotic approach", in Narrative and Belief: The Religious Affordance of Supernatural Fiction (ed. Markus Altena Davidsen), unnumbered page:
 * Apparent counter-evidence is found in Zoe Alderton's (2014) description of the Snapewife community, a group of women who have claimed that Snape is real and have married him on the astral plane.
 * 2020, Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, unnumbered page:
 * But the story of the Snapewives is inseparable from the story of the rise of Internet fan culture as a whole: the story of how we as a broader culture have transformed the way we insert ourselves—our loves, our wants, our desires, our chosen narratives—into the stories we consume.
 * 2022, Andrew Monteith, "Transhumanism, Utopia, and the Problem of the Real in Ready Player One", The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Volume 34, Issue 1, Spring 2022, page 10:
 * Although Brony tulpas and Snapewives may practice a unique kind of fandom, one might consider that fan fiction writings across a range of imaginary worlds do similar work by speculating what it might be like to interact with favourite characters.
 * 2023, Sophie Duncan, Juliet: The Life and Afterlives of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine, unnumbered page:
 * or the mid-2000s phenomenon of ' Snapewives ', Harry Potter fans who constructed a mystical faith centred on the belief that they were married to the fictional character Severus Snape on the astral plane.