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- From: werewolf@cwis.unomaha.edu (Eric E. Buckner)
- Subject: Re: Impressions of the REAL thing...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.203100.396@news.unomaha.edu>
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:31:00 GMT
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- aodn307@bongo.cc.utexas.edu writes:
- >
- >
- >
- > D) Vampires must receive permission to enter a house. No plausable reason...
- > According to one mythos (middle European somewhere... the exact
- > region escapes me at the moment...), Vampires would bang on people's
- > windows until the curious person opened the shudders and got attacked.
-
- Assuming (always a dangerous thing) that someone who wrote articles for a
- gaming magazines Halloween issue did his homework; the need for permission
- stems from the Greek version of the vampire (probably a victim of early burial
- or just a body that was naturally slow to rot [giving the appearance of a
- fairly whole corpse that shouldn't be whole]). The Greek vampire would call
- around to houses of the living that it knew in life. If it was the vampire
- whoever answered the door was in big trouble, but conviently enough the
- vampire would/could only call once in the night, and could not enter of its own
- violation.
-
- Ed and I would like to thank you for your support...
-
- --
- 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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