Ok last week we had psychiatrists and hurricane…I mean that’s about as scary as you gets–so today we’ll do Creatures of The Night….less scary than last week.
As you can see I’m back and Florida dodged Matthew which could have been a major bullet, but turned out to be for a lot of the State (though not all) to be bad but not total wreckage….in fact for a lot of Central Florida it’s a return to BAU today. We loss some lives and that is horrible– all the buildings in the state not being worth a life…and there is still dangers–one of my neighbors was cleaning up her yard when a huge limb that had been broken during the storm, dislodged and just missed hitting her on the head. Where I lived (inland on higher ground that drains well) we only were without electric (though I have at least one friend that had been out a couple of days at last count) only about 5 hrs on Friday. In fact I was to a Birthday party for this foxy lady on Sat afternoon.
Isn’t she a beauty?!
But now it’s time for the creature I’d most like to creep into my bedroom and …..opps not that kinda blog
These are Japanese–an ancient evil that was told of in a story of a nobleman–Raiko, who while ridding Kyoto of demons is struck down by a wasting sickness and awakens bound by silken webs and assailed by a huge, glittery eyed spider. The Japanese warrior manages to defend himself and his warriors hunt down and kill the beastie. And of course the Commander and his sword Kumokirt (spider cutter) survived to fight on.
But let’s face it Spiders are scary without being demons.
Seems even the evil genius Dr. No used spiders as murder weapons with their scary hairy bodies… even James Bond seems a bit scared of the 8 legged creature in this one: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dr_no/
More recently they have even moved to the really big time when the Giant Spider appears in the book (The Two Towers) but doesn’t appear in the movie until The Return of the King– in the immensely popular Lord of the Rings Series-and causes all manner of trouble for our little Hobbit and his bud.
Is there any more frightening creature than the beings that comes unbidden to do harm in one’s sleep by way of our dreams.
Many countries have such;
England: A Night Mare
France: Couchemar
Germany: Mahr
Lithuania: Mara
and the words all come from the Anglo Saxon Mara or crusher
Now we often use Latin term incubus which also means Crusher
The Greeks n the other hand called it ephialter or leaper
What a concept–a creature that leaps upon your bed and crushes you.
They caught and held the victim and set on the chest of the sleeper crushing the breath away from their helpless sleeper. They were seducers and defilers and left the victims weak and exhausted at morning light. In Hebrew tales it was named Lilith–daughter of the eldest world and she had many hungry daughters.
Many ways were devised to avoid these Shadows–dare I say even demons again?
Never Sleep with the head to the north (the location of the land of the dead)
Shoes placed by the bed with the toes pointed out–a small sharpness to help repel.
A small coffin nail under the foot of the bed as iron was repealing to these and many other evil beings.
Who lies here?
I, Johnnie Dow
Hoo Johnnie is that you?
Ah, man, but I’m dead now
Johnny Dow
St. Decuman’s
Somerset, England
THE VAMPIRE’S INCANTATIONS
We in the West see–or “believe” in Vampires in the form of Bela Lugosi or in a better vision Brad Pitt–Ok stop lining up to be bitten—well Jolie is through with him so she could let us have him don’t you think? Oops going off the topic again.
But what I started to say was that Vampires aren’t limited to hot guys with big….ah…capes, but…or their alter-ego bats. In fact bats were not even part of the vampire legend until ones that consumed blood were discovered in the New World.
Earliest Vampire legends allowed the vampire to dissolve into dust and mist and when they decided to fly away they usually took the form of an owl–a night bird that use to be considered scary but more recently have become messengers for British Wizard School kids and so have lost a lot of the BOO factor.
In Japan the vampire was most likely to appear at court as concubines–I am not sure if this means if they were all female or mixed or even mostly male which brings Trannies into the picture—but that’s another blog. What ever the original sexual orientation of the vampire they would appear as concubines and would drain the blood of their lovers. If discovered they would become cats and run away. And how can you tell if your cat is a vampire? Easy vampire cats have two tails.
Since I have been so quickly done for
I wonder what I was begun for
Anonymous tomb
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