I've got a stack of Icelandic and Norwegian Medieval vampires that call nonsense on him and his pellagra. What does he think the dead did in 900? Just lie there under the hill? Pshaw.
If you are writing to whatever the current fad is, you are doing yourself, your audience, and your book a huge disservice. I feel for this author, because whether he realized it or not, he doomed his work to be irrelevant from the outset. This is his legacy, and how he will be remembered is as a sellout.
*A History of the World in 6 Glasses* and *The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers* are good. Also early.
I've got a stack of Icelandic and Norwegian Medieval vampires that call nonsense on him and his pellagra. What does he think the dead did in 900? Just lie there under the hill? Pshaw.
Waiting, waiting on the corn to arrive! LOL
It is conceivable that there was an element of shifting.
But always verify the evidence with folklore and then triple check because it's not a field with high standards of evidence.
The number of intellectual types who think they're going to do well when there's a big change is astounding.
If you are writing to whatever the current fad is, you are doing yourself, your audience, and your book a huge disservice. I feel for this author, because whether he realized it or not, he doomed his work to be irrelevant from the outset. This is his legacy, and how he will be remembered is as a sellout.
*A History of the World in 6 Glasses* and *The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers* are good. Also early.
I don't think I care to give this author or more, his publisher, any of my money again. Much less my time.
Life is short. Books are long. Quite understandable.
And I have a towering TBR stack that never seems to shrink.
Vampire myths come from Flea Death.
Hence why thinks like Garlic and certain types of wood keep vampires away.
Belief in vampires and other unquiet dead predate the Romans, and certainly predate Justinian's plague.
You do know what Flea death is, right?
You mean Yersinia pestis, also known as the Black Death, Black Plague, and Justinian's Plague?
No. See the post I just made on my substack.
Well, one would assume you are referring to the Black Death, transmitted by fleas (carried by rats).
Unless you're talking about Discworld fan fiction Death of Fleas?
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnvanstry/p/flea-death?r=rwj3k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Thanks for writing that up John!
I'm just surprised that more people don't know about this, but then again, maybe I shouldn't be.
No.