My house is so old and has no insulation, they could probably slip through the gaps between the windows, or the spaces between the boards, or the gaps in the floorboards. In a high wind it's like living in a cheese-grater. The demons could probably just explode the whole place without too much effort. CONCERNING.
Yeah, the salt thing is an age-old problem. It does have to be laid inside, and you have to re-salt every time someone goes in or out. The old solution used to be to have a groove in the floorboards or flagstones, but I understand you can't have anything that would cover or dilute the salt, so you can't put a gaffer tape over the top to stick it down.
In the oldest houses and castles, they used to bury people under the hearth stone - sometimes a newborn, sometimes a child, sometimes a warrior; sometimes a beloved animal would do - so that in death they would become a protective house spirit to ward off other supernatural forces. I think they had to be alive when buried, so that they would fuse with the house as they died. I don't recommend that as a way forward.
It might be easier to chalk protective symbols? I don't know. Most of the lore is designed to work in the old world against old-world creatures. Do you have NZ-specific ghoulies?
Good God. Actually it makes sense that the salt would be rendered useless if the purity was tampered with. So you CAN'T add glue it seems. I think people with castles would have been better to have a salt water moat. YES. (Perhaps they could pay for it on their ministerial expense account
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I think the baby makes more sense than most of the other options (not that I'm advocating any of them). The baby becomes the soul of the house, and if it's honoured and remembered with respect and love (which seems part of the same tradition), I imagine that the idea is that it will be 'raised' to know no different - it will always think of the house as its body, and its inhabitants as its family. It's one of the reasons you get so many ghost/horror stories about houses where things start going wrong when the last of the family line dies out - clocks stopping at the moment of death/animosity towards new families moving in etc. The roots of those stories are in this practice. A baby was preferred over a dumb but loyal animal for obvious reasons, I think, and if young enough it would've died quickly without much struggle. I mean. Relatively speaking. Oh hell, you know what I mean. And a baby will have the blind trusting love of a child, but the strength of the supernatural. So many early cultures believed that the world of the
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I like that somehow the Canadian ice dancers lead to a Supernatural personal debate over how to make the salt stay.
Then I thought, we don't need to worry about that here in the winter since there's salt EVERYWHERE to combat the ice. Maybe that's why Canada is so awesome? lol!
Have you seen "Bowling for Columbine"? Michael Moore goes to Canada to try and work out why Canada has so few gun homicides compared to the States. He concludes its because you guys aren't so scared of each other.
I say it is the preponderance of SALT. That seems quite clear to me! LOLZ.
Canada is awesome. I'm totally cheering for all your guys at the Olympics, as we only have a small team and won't expect much success. The ice dancers won me over fair and square. :-D
I have seen Bowling for Columbine. It strikes me as funny now (well, this one part), the part where he goes to the Canadian 'slum.' I've been right through that neighbourhood as it's not far from the ex's condo and is honestly not even close to the worst neighbourhood in Toronto. He should've shot the film in Regent Park which has the largest percentage of low income families and is made up entirely of geared to income housing (better known as the projects, at least to Americans). Or better yet, gone up to Jane and Finch where there have been a number of school shootings. I guess that wouldn't have fit his movie though.
Don't get me wrong, I actually really liked the movie, it's just easier to see how a filmmaker can manipulate when you live in the area. Hopefully one day I can manipulate people like that too! :D
I sometimes think Sam and Dean should get, like, gap-filler or something and mix it with salt and then fill up a pump thingy like you get in the hardware stores and just pump that shit along every single wall so it hardens and doesn't blow away. Or even just use glue. GLUE.
Although... as someone suggested above, perhaps that makes the salt less pure? Hmph.
In other news, I need your shoe advice. Which are the best places to buy shoes. In NZ. Doesn't have to be Christchurch if I can order online :D THis is something you will know!
I enjoy Wild Pair for its funkiness. Street Legal sometimes have some gems. Hannahs is always good for reasonably priced shoes in enough styles that you're bound to find one you like. Andrea Biani usually has a few pairs I like. I avoid Mi Piaci cos they're stupidly overpriced and not usually all that gorgeous, and Overland are WAY too expensive for what are really rather boring shoes that you can get way cheaper elsewhere. What are you after? Don't forget Trademe although that is a bit hit and miss sometimes.
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In the oldest houses and castles, they used to bury people under the hearth stone - sometimes a newborn, sometimes a child, sometimes a warrior; sometimes a beloved animal would do - so that in death they would become a protective house spirit to ward off other supernatural forces. I think they had to be alive when buried, so that they would fuse with the house as they died. I don't recommend that as a way forward.
It might be easier to chalk protective symbols? I don't know. Most of the lore is designed to work in the old world against old-world creatures. Do you have NZ-specific ghoulies?
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Then I thought, we don't need to worry about that here in the winter since there's salt EVERYWHERE to combat the ice. Maybe that's why Canada is so awesome? lol!
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I say it is the preponderance of SALT. That seems quite clear to me! LOLZ.
Canada is awesome. I'm totally cheering for all your guys at the Olympics, as we only have a small team and won't expect much success.
The ice dancers won me over fair and square. :-D
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Don't get me wrong, I actually really liked the movie, it's just easier to see how a filmmaker can manipulate when you live in the area. Hopefully one day I can manipulate people like that too! :D
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Although... as someone suggested above, perhaps that makes the salt less pure? Hmph.
In other news, I need your shoe advice. Which are the best places to buy shoes. In NZ. Doesn't have to be Christchurch if I can order online :D
THis is something you will know!
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I enjoy Wild Pair for its funkiness. Street Legal sometimes have some gems. Hannahs is always good for reasonably priced shoes in enough styles that you're bound to find one you like. Andrea Biani usually has a few pairs I like. I avoid Mi Piaci cos they're stupidly overpriced and not usually all that gorgeous, and Overland are WAY too expensive for what are really rather boring shoes that you can get way cheaper elsewhere. What are you after? Don't forget Trademe although that is a bit hit and miss sometimes.
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