Ninurta, so, so close to my thinking, and yet you dance around my conclusions that I have yet to share. You should be able to see the basics like I do as you are right on top of it.
You go too far back to the earliest origins and are too broad as I was only talking about Gothic Horror, not the origins of ancient tales of the Stone Age primitives of any place or time. Forget about going so far back or being too much in the now. I know you guys can get there, it is so obvious what inspired this genre.
Damn it, I feel it is necessary to put out another clue to my line of thinking on this subject.
Zombies, although an African-based myth involving Voodoo magic, are popularly considered dead corpses roaming around, killing and then eating the flesh of living humans who become living dead zombies themselves. How does this tie in with a blood-sucking count in Transylvania? Or lycanthropy in France and Germany or the Golem of Prague? Think broadly, there is one thing that was caused by several major events in European history that spawned these monsters.
You go too far back to the earliest origins and are too broad as I was only talking about Gothic Horror, not the origins of ancient tales of the Stone Age primitives of any place or time. Forget about going so far back or being too much in the now. I know you guys can get there, it is so obvious what inspired this genre.
Damn it, I feel it is necessary to put out another clue to my line of thinking on this subject.
Zombies, although an African-based myth involving Voodoo magic, are popularly considered dead corpses roaming around, killing and then eating the flesh of living humans who become living dead zombies themselves. How does this tie in with a blood-sucking count in Transylvania? Or lycanthropy in France and Germany or the Golem of Prague? Think broadly, there is one thing that was caused by several major events in European history that spawned these monsters.
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