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As 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 i
by Timon3 3y ago
As 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”.
- eigenket 3y agoSome vampires may even be as old as the 14th century, which is when people first started using "they" as a gender neutral third person pronoun. Some 18th century people didn't like it because they thought it was too colloquial but its been a part of English for a fairly long time, roughly 10 times as long as the "Internet age".
- dspillett 3y agoAnother common thought for how the not-seeing-in-mirrors thing came about is that silver was seen as something that harmed or warded off evil, hence its use against werewolf and such in many myths. Way-back-when, the reflective backing of mirrors, at least those owned by the rich or well-to-do, was often achieved with a thin coat of silver. Of course that doesn't explain other evil creatures having a reflection in the same mirrors, but as the various mythologies have different mixed sources we can't expect an awful lot of consistency.
- cultofmetatron 3y agoI heard its due to the silver. vampires are weak to silver and silver was used in both in the reflective backing of old mirrors and photographic emulsion.
- krapp 3y agoBear in mind that prior to Bram Stoker and Universal Studios basically codifying the modern vampire archetype, what "vampires" were (vaguely, any demonic or malevolent spirit that drank blood) and how they behaved was a matter of folklore and might differ greatly from place to place. All of these beliefs and more were probably true at the same time.