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- From: decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz)
- Subject: Re: Bats don't suck blood was (Re: Hey, Ata Boy - outta here!)
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:38:39 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.133839.3909@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- References: <BuDJzy.CEs@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <29705@wissel.GBA.NYU.EDU> <1992Sep11.014759.10927@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1992Sep11.014759.10927@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis) writes:
- > In article <29705@wissel.GBA.NYU.EDU> smezias@wissel.GBA.NYU.EDU
- > (Stephen J. Mezias) writes:
- >
- > }(1) If Ronald Bense were occupying your body against your will, say
- > }he were attached to your neck sucking your blood because he is a
- > }vampire, you would have every right to remove him, and probably even
- > }kill him. That is provided you weren't enjoying it.
- >
- > Vampire bats do not suck blood. They make an incision, it bleeds, and
- > they lap it up. I'm not sure about other vampires, but I assume their
- > mouth parts are similar. I don't know of any documentation for that, but
- > I expect I can dig up something from Merlin Tuttle (and if you don't
- > know who he is, don't be surprised, but you don't know much about bats
- > either). This testimony is from an eyeball witness, is that documentation
- > enough?
-
- Mr Mezias did not refer to vampire bats, but to vampires. I
- feel secure in saying, given the context of the original discussion,
- that Mr Mezias was refering to those human beings who have become
- the undead and, in order to preserve their undeadness, must
- drink the blood of living humans. This behavior in turn causes the
- victims of this ghastly imbibing to become vampires themselves.
-
- As a side note, I recall reading a Scientific American article
- some years ago (I believe I was still in high school at the time,
- which puts it somewhere prior to the discovery of fire) that
- speculated about vampires, George III, and porphyria. The
- hypothesis was that the legend of vampirism arose around people
- suffering from porphyria, since such people are hyper-sensitive
- to sunlight and to garlic, and their urine tends to become
- the color of well-aged port, though there was no statement as
- to whether or not it tasted as good as port. I prefer the
- Taylor '74 myself, but that's another matter. Porphyria
- also affected their minds adversely. It has been a long time
- since I saw that article, so I don't recall any more of the
- details.
-
- Dean Kaflowitz
-
- Urine samples available upon request.
-
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