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missfrillypants -> RE: Vampires (bunked or debunked) (3/10/2008 1:17:09 PM)
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ORIGINAL: joanus
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A lot of people seem to have misread Brom Strokers "Draclua" and there for have gotten a lot of things wrong.
First of all The whole stake throught the heart thing. The stake was merely to hold the vampire down so that the Hunters could behead the creature. the stake is not a requirment for killing A vamp merely removing the head will do. And No the do not put a buffy and turn to dust once you stake them in the heart.
Second Dracula was out in broad daylight dueing at least two scenes that I can think of off the top of my head.
First when he came to visit John Harker's room while he was shaving in the morning. there was even a passage that said "...and his face looked ashy in the mornings light as it had last night at dinner..."
Second in the last chapter when The Hunter finally caught Dracula's coffin the ripped it open (also in broad day light) and managed to drive a stake through his heart, but before they could chop off his head he smiled turned to dust. This was likly some sort of selfdestruct trick to keep them from having the sadisfaction of killing him.
Lastly Dracula was a Homosexual. Thats right Drake was queer, Only in the english printing of "Dracula" does it call the three Vixens his "Brides" in all other languages it uses the word "daughters". Dracula was written during the Victorian era as a sort of sexual rebellion, Brohms way "of sticking it to the man".
I find that most people are either illiterate or have a failure to fulling understand what they read.
PS Najakcharmer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirlian_photography
"Kirlian made controversial claims that his method showed proof of supernatural auras, "
This "snake oil" is still being sold to day at your local occult store, goth shops and trade shows. Thought any one who has ever played with one of those ElectroGlobes will tell you its just the electrical discharge from your body. Though all PsiVamps and a large majority of the Mordern Vampire Scene Swear that it is an aura. But we smart people know better.
Also slaveboyforyou and Dregg13 the original spelling of the word Vampire was Wampyre (pronounced; Wham-par-eh) a direct romanization of the original language spoken throught out Romanina nad Transilvanina. The acsent in english (example: I vant to suck your blood) gave birth to the word Vampye (pronounced; Vam-par-eh) the written word was most likly misprnounced ( the "pyre" pronounced; Pie-are) Gave want to the New English spelling of Vampire.
Hence the evolution of the word Vampire.
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actually, i think quite a lot of people just didn't read stoker's dracula at all and instead saw the movie. i'm not knocking your post, but there are so many vampire myths and even so many dracula myths that it's difficult to point at even stoker's piece and say "that's the definitive edition." and if you're going by date, why not choose carmilla or some of the other lesser known pieces that came out before stoker wrote dracula?
and as far as dracula being a homosexual because they were his daughters instead of his brides.... um... it's a little difficult to say that's what mr stoker was thinking when he wrote that now, from so many years after his death and all... i'd like a little bit more evidence that that was what he intended, especially since in order to have daughters one still has to have sex at some point, and um... well, that whole "preying on lucy westenra in a blatantly sexual way..." thing. although one does have to look at the "bloodletting as a sublimination for sex, which was not allowed to be written about in that time period" thing to understand the way the myth of the vampire evolved from that point.
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