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- From: ferret@irony.engin.umich.edu (kenneth r lipka)
- Subject: Re: Coppula's DRACULA
- Message-ID: <P8F=gM#@engin.umich.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 15:27:39 EST
- Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
- References: <1992Nov12.210202.12648@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <1992Nov17.170037.24914@ll.mit.edu> <flar.722055897@vincent2.iastate.edu>
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- In article <flar.722055897@vincent2.iastate.edu>, flar@iastate.edu (Bradley M Armitage) writes:
- >
- > Oh, I hate to ask, but what in the bloody heck was Dracula doing turning
- > into a werewolf????? I just don't get it.....
- >
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- I hate to answer, but...
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- Dracula was not "turning into a werewolf", he was turning into a _wolf_.
- A werewolf is an "ordinary" person who can assume the shape of a wolf. Some of
- the vampire legends/folklore/fakelore (note, no favortism here) allow for vampires to assume the shape of a wolf (or bat or rat or mist).
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- With a simple fact,
- Ken Lipka
- ferret@engin.umich.edu
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