I'm trying to remember what book I read recently that asserted that the Church was overrun by vampires and that all the saints whose miraculously unscathed bodies were enshrined in the crypts were coming out at night, feasting on the priests, and making new vampires...
It's also worth noting that having a vial of someone's blood gives you power over them, in that same older magic tradition.
It's also worth noting that having a vial of someone's blood gives you power over them, in that same older magic tradition.
My knowledge of magical traditions is limited to reading Margot Adler's "Drawing Down the Moon" a very long time ago. Does the possession of blood give power of the dead, or just the living?
In common Western lore, only over the living, but there are traditions in which it makes it possible to raise and/or command the dead. I have several lovely Roman recipes to that effect.
Doris Drummond sneaked a look In a locked and cobwebbed book. There she found some words you said, That could summon up the dead. Sad to say, the dead she summoned, Had it in for Doris Drummond.
My reading pile used to really worry my roommates.
And I had a professor who once told me that if I summoned a little blue pazuzu, he was going to just wheel me over into the corner and let the demon gnaw on my head while he finished class.
It's also worth noting that having a vial of someone's blood gives you power over them, in that same older magic tradition.
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My knowledge of magical traditions is limited to reading Margot Adler's "Drawing Down the Moon" a very long time ago. Does the possession of blood give power of the dead, or just the living?
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In a locked and cobwebbed book.
There she found some words you said,
That could summon up the dead.
Sad to say, the dead she summoned,
Had it in for Doris Drummond.
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And I had a professor who once told me that if I summoned a little blue pazuzu, he was going to just wheel me over into the corner and let the demon gnaw on my head while he finished class.
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