Vampires: A Disturbing History of the Bloodythirsty
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Published 2022-05-27
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Simon , I am originally from Transylvania and I can confirm that in all my 346 years I never saw not even one Vampire ! 👍
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I once asked "if you put holy water in a humidifier in a room with a vampire, did you make a holy gas chamber" and I still have not gotten an answer.
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Katie left out my favorite method of dealing with vampires: Throwing a big pile of coins on the ground! They will automatically stop to count it all, giving you more time to run away. That was the inspiration for the Count from Sesame street.
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On the topic he talked about "ways to dispose of my corpse" he mentioned the tree thing being terrifying to him. My sister was killed and we cremated her and got something called "bio-urn". Long story short my sister is now a weeping cherry tree in my moms backyard. I think it's kinda beautiful in a morbid way, because it's like shes always there for me to visit.
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A girl at camp told me she had rabies because a dog bit her, and every once in a while it would flair up. It just now occurred to me she must have been lying.
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The funniest thing about the Whistler Extended Universe (Whistleverse, or WEU) is all the times he's mentioned his Mouse Genocide on multiple different channels
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Showing my age, here, but I loved the soap opera Dark Shadows, in the 60s. I can't believe no one's mentioned Bunnicula!
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Fun fact: in Bram Stoker's novel, garlic flowers are indeed what is used to keep the vampire away rather than bulbs. The smell is described as objectionable by the maid.
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The term "Bible Fanfiction" is definitely now one of my favorite phrases
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... Déjà vu! I've just been in this place before! ... I'm sure it's just as interesting the second time around, though.
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Sleeping Beauty: She is discovered (unconscious) in her castle by a wandering king, who "carries her to a bed, where he gathers the first fruits of love." He leaves her there and she later gives birth to twins.
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Fun fact: the medal Bela Lugosi wore as Dracula was not a prop. It was his.
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3:05 - Chapter 1 - Forever living legends 4:10 - Chapter 2 - Sekhmet 5:45 - Chapter 3 - Lilith 9:55 - Chapter 4 - Vlad the impaler 12:00 - Chapter 5 - Elizabeth bahtory 16:10 - Mid roll ads 18:35 - Chapter 6 - Vampire Hysteria 23:20 - Chapter 7 - My favorite vampire 29:40 - Chapter 8 - Vampire slaying 101 30:10 - Chapter 8.1 - Deny entry 31:55 - Chapter 8.2 - Holy symbols 34:35 - Chapter 8.3 - Garlic 36:40 - Chapter 8.4 - Wooden stakes 38:15 - Chapter 8.5 - Heads off 39:35 - Chapter 9 - Vampires today
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In defense of Herodotus, he was originally setting out to write a travel guide of the civilizations around the Mediterranean at the time, and explicitly stated that much of what he wrote was what he had been told, and he himself questioned the validity of much of it. He's only really a historian in hindsight. Also I had allll the Animorphs books as a kid. I absolutely loved that shit. Honestly great stories especially considering the target age group.
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While you were mentioning a lot of vampire movies/books T.V. shows, I noticed a few lacking I considered "important" Dark Shadows, Forever Knight, Hotel Transylvania, the Rom-Coms Bite Me and Love at First Bite, and a whole plethora of Little Vampire movies/shows for kids.
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Oh my gosh, I STILL love Buffy , after all these years! 💕 What a really classy show.
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I’ve watched this twice now and the part where Simon says: ‘Yup, in the butt.’ still makes me laugh.
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“Something you should be enjoying right now, wine!” Simon it is 9:38 in the morning do not tempt me
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I feel like there's a fun conversation you could have with Caitlin "I want my dead body eaten by ANIMALS!!!!" Doughty.
