tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143804511914915944.post8280454596272599561..comments2023-05-18T06:26:42.009-05:00Comments on Evelyn M. Byrne: Another kind of Vampire?Evelyn M. Byrnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09244687659238021145noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143804511914915944.post-13332949280671948422011-03-17T10:07:03.194-05:002011-03-17T10:07:03.194-05:00This may be true in some cases. Although we have m...This may be true in some cases. Although we have many authors today that bring them into a totally different light. Go back to my first few guest bloggers and you will see.Evelyn M. Byrnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244687659238021145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1143804511914915944.post-9746444639297706792011-03-16T20:26:53.336-05:002011-03-16T20:26:53.336-05:00The vampire is one of the more fascinating fantasy...The vampire is one of the more fascinating fantasy characters, and also one of the most abused, in my opinion.<br /><br />Victorian-era stories such as <i>Dracula</i> made the vampire into the personification of the evils of sex. If you look at Dracula himself, he's an exotic Eastern European, forcing himself upon Mina Harker and trying to transform her into something less than the paragon of Victorian virtue.<br /><br />The concept of the vampire as the "other" doesn't change at all as modern times approach. Case in point, <i>Nosferatu the Vampyre,</i> which made the titular bloodsucker into a hideous, monstrous excuse for a man. The vampire became the boogeyman in this regard.<br /><br />There's one interesting take on a creature that could be considered a vampire that comes from the Ojibwa legend, the wendigo. It could be considered vampire-ish, although the key to the wendigo's existence is not necessarily sex as much as hunger (it's thought the wendigo stories were an acceptable means for Ojibwa storytellers to deal with the issue of cannibalism).Don A. Martinezhttp://desertcoyote.weebly.comnoreply@blogger.com