(10-22-2024, 11:59 AM)Michigan Swamp Buck Wrote: What I'm thinking is not that far out there, it's pretty obvious actually. This paragraph is a huge clue about where I'm headed with this.These are some great questions. I just wish I had more time to mull over the subject. I've been too busy to post on forums lately. So I just zeroed in on the aspect that interested me most, which was vampires. I haven't read up on the origins of werewolves or Golem of Prague, and I only just learned about the urban legend of Jacques St. Germain. But on the bright side, I've been reading up on Saint Germain for the whole month of October. The origin of the myth that he lived for centuries was due to:
-him not revealing much about himself to outsiders, people knew practically nothing about him and invented his motives
-two impersonators (one of them paid by malevolent persons) making exaggerated claims about his longevity
-unfounded rumours about an elixir he never claimed to possess, though he was like a physician
-the fact that he really did live a long youthful life thanks to his strict ascetic life, though he still died