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Not that I know the details of medieval vampire lore, but doesn't it sort of follow that if the deceased has crossed to far side of Styx they'd be much less eli
by etiam 3y ago
Not that I know the details of medieval vampire lore, but doesn't it sort of follow that if the deceased has crossed to far side of Styx they'd be much less eligible for walking/flying/crawling/whatever around as one of the restless dead?
It seems like the practice could well share inheritance with ancient Greece, but I'd be surprised if the motivating mythology would be quite the same. Wonder what the story was in ancient Poland..
- smcl 3y agoYou probably want to cover your bases, IMO. If they're a vampire, ok no worries we have the little sickle over their neck. If they're not - a couple of złoty to help them on their journey in the afterlife.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoIt's like anticonception; more measures means a lower chance of the undead running amok. I mean they're already consecrated and buried, it won't hurt to also add padlocks, stakes, coins, sickles, and (another thing I haven't seen in the article) a cage around the grave.
- TeMPOraL 3y ago> a cage around the grave I suspect this one may have more to do with countering external threats.
- Timon3 3y agoAs far as I'm aware, the common understanding is that a vampire doesn't have a soul anymore, they are undead. This is why they supposedly can't see themselves in mirrors. https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/38468 https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/38468 This would imply that helping the soul cross the river doesn't prevent "vampirification".
- akomtu 3y agoAddressing a vampire as "they" may be in fact dangerous, for most of the vampires are from the pre-internet age.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoWhat are you trying to say here? Can you elaborate? As far as I'm aware English predates the internet.
- alexeldeib 3y agoI think it’s alluding to “they” being non binary/woke to refer to a single person
- r2_pilot 3y agoUsing "they" to denote genderless singular has been common in English for more than a century.
- alexeldeib 3y agoI'm not agreeing or disagreeing, just answering the question as I saw it :)
- chc 3y agoThe singular "they" is in fact about as old as the singular "you" (which was also strictly a plural before then).
- cududa 3y agoI just want you to know, you’re not getting downvoted by the “woke mob”, you’re getting down voted for making an idiotic joke and insisting on making some random conversation on history about “woke politics”.
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