“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.”
new vampire grave has been uncovered by archaeologists in poland. the skeleton has a sickle over the neck (so that if the corpse were trying to get up, the blade would decapitate them). how cool is that.
the female “vampire” in question died in 17th century and had protruding front teeth, which suggests that their appearance was what prompted the precautions.
anti-vampiric burials were spread in eastern europe like nowhere else. the region is the cradle of modern vampiric superstitions and legends.
