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- From: werewolf@cwis.unomaha.edu (Eric E. Buckner)
- Subject: Re: Vampires evil?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.201335.29730@news.unomaha.edu>
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- References: <BxnyH6.5tw@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:13:35 GMT
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- snx@dcs.ed.ac.uk writes:
- > The problem with vampires is not what they
- > actaully do, but what they represent; after all, any wolf or bear will hunt
- > and eat a human for survival under circumstance, yet nobody ever condemnded
- > them as evil, UNLESS they started creating a reign of terror and fear through
- > their actions, which is what the vampires do.
- > Cheers, Evie
-
- I beg to differ. I see your point about bears, but wolves have a strong
- connection to evil. For "The Fool"'s benefit, why else are wolves almost
- completely driven out of thier territory? Because farmers **THOUGHT** that
- the wolves would eat thier livestock (in [I believe it was in Colorado] one
- case wolves had to be imported back into an old range to help control the mouse
- population which had exploded to epidemic proportions, because the wolves had
- been eating the mice, and now there were no wolves...). Funny how something
- which is not considered evil is eradicated merely on suspicion and with bountys
- and with extreme prejudice...
-
- I believe the source for my next blurb was the Discovery Channel or PBS.
- In Scandanavia, there is a problem reintigrating wolves back into the old
- ranges because many of the old herders have a tendancy to see the wolf as
- an immediate threat to any livestock the herder might own...old habits die
- hard.
-
- Also, if there is no connection between wolves and evil, why do we have "Peter
- and the Wolf" and "Little Red Riding Hood?" Because the wolves are "good"
- creatures...I think not.
- --
- Never trust the obvious.-- "This," I said pleasantly, "is known as getting it
- on." Charlie Decker, from Stephen King's "Rage"-- "Oh, shit!" anon. wise man--
- ALBATROSS!-- It's amazing what you can do, if you don't know you can't do it.
- "Denn die Toten reiten schnell." passanger from Bram Stoker's "Dracula"-------
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