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- From: thorfinn@wixer.cactus.org (Thorfinn Einarsson)
- Subject: re: Impressions of the REAL thing...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.094254.11613@wixer.cactus.org>
- Organization: Real/Time Communications
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 09:42:54 GMT
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- >aodn307@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (Joshua Henry Geurink)
- >To get started, I'm a bit... hung up on the vampire subject. I've spent
- >a CONSIDERABLE amount of time doing research on real-life sightings and
- >the vampire myth/reality.
- > As such, I'd like to know what the majority of those who DO put
- >thought towards vampires believe about the possibility and traits of the
- >REAL creatures (should they exist).
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- Have you read *Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality* by
- Paul Barber? For the most part, he explains the folkloric revenant evidence
- to be a natural occurrence of the putrefaction of a corpse.
- Many pre-conceived ideas of vampires will lose most of their zing after
- reading this book. There is a wonderful bibliography at the end, but be
- prepared: half of the references are in German. The folkloric revenant
- and the fictional revenant are two different topics altogether.
-
- There are those who seek immortality. If someone *is* immortal, s/he
- probably won't tell you.
-
- There are people who like to drink blood, sleep in coffins, and are really
- into the Un-Dead aesthetic. But are they really Un-Dead? I doubt it.
- It's something to do, and it makes for great sex. That's what they say. :)
-
- The original Lord of the Un-Dead is Odhinn, for he is called
- "draugadro'ttinn" in Old Norse from a 13th century saga.
- People used to believe this, and some will again.
-
- =-= Thorfinn Einarsson =-=-=-=-=-= ALU =-=-=-=-=-= O'dhinn er alfadhir! =-=
- "En stundum vakti hann upp daudha menn o'r io"rdhu edha settisk undir hanga;
- fyrir thvi' var hann kalladhr draugadro'ttinn edha hangadro'ttinn."
- =-= ALU =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ynglinga saga ch. 7 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ALU =-=
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