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<blockquote data-quote="Graveyard Hound" data-source="post: 49840" data-attributes="member: 2530"><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #00ffff"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'">I have often pondered on the notion that was there, at one time, something "real" that finally ended up as "fantasy", 'myth", ssuperstition", "folklore", etc. Take for instance, events thhat take place in nature, such as lighting striking an object, let's say for argumment's sake, a castle wall. One might assume , in this day and time, a normal naturaal occurance but let's look at it several thousand years ago when the "gods" had "tools" or "weapons", like Zeus with "his lighting bolts", proving a point to the ruler behind the walls... it semed what was beyond man's ability to understand or "correctly explain", based what we now call science, well an evil/good, creature with a point to prove ;demon, angels, etc., got the credit or the blame or both. There ws a medical condition,catalepsy, that would render the body apparently lacking all signs of life but still alive and since this particular condition came around before medicine as we know it today, folks just got buried alive. So try to put yourself in the place of a "superstitious, peasant", who passing by the local cemetery seess ambulating about the body of a supposedlly "dead man" buried only recently, this is assuming the poor fellow didn't run out of air or was not sealed within a stout wooden coffin that might be hard to punch your way out of but simply dumped in a hole, dirt placed over him, he comes to, finds himself "buried alive" and has no desire to remain there. Hence, the "undead" are loose in the graveyard.Wonder how the srories behind vampire, werewloves, other kinds of "undead" got started? Just something to ponder over.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Graveyard Hound, post: 49840, member: 2530"] [SIZE=5][COLOR=#00ffff][FONT=georgia]I have often pondered on the notion that was there, at one time, something "real" that finally ended up as "fantasy", 'myth", ssuperstition", "folklore", etc. Take for instance, events thhat take place in nature, such as lighting striking an object, let's say for argumment's sake, a castle wall. One might assume , in this day and time, a normal naturaal occurance but let's look at it several thousand years ago when the "gods" had "tools" or "weapons", like Zeus with "his lighting bolts", proving a point to the ruler behind the walls... it semed what was beyond man's ability to understand or "correctly explain", based what we now call science, well an evil/good, creature with a point to prove ;demon, angels, etc., got the credit or the blame or both. There ws a medical condition,catalepsy, that would render the body apparently lacking all signs of life but still alive and since this particular condition came around before medicine as we know it today, folks just got buried alive. So try to put yourself in the place of a "superstitious, peasant", who passing by the local cemetery seess ambulating about the body of a supposedlly "dead man" buried only recently, this is assuming the poor fellow didn't run out of air or was not sealed within a stout wooden coffin that might be hard to punch your way out of but simply dumped in a hole, dirt placed over him, he comes to, finds himself "buried alive" and has no desire to remain there. Hence, the "undead" are loose in the graveyard.Wonder how the srories behind vampire, werewloves, other kinds of "undead" got started? Just something to ponder over.[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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