Revenants
The general view of the book on vampires, which i quoted
was simply that the people, disinterring a body
found it not as decomposed as they thought that it ought to be.
They expected no blood to be flowing, and the skin decomposing,
Not bloated, perhaps, and not appearing alive.
Even the smell of decomposition was taken to be a symptom
of increasing unnaturalness, rather than death.
They then felt that they must kill the returned being, before it
killed them all. Behind their fear there might very well be
their fears and suspicions, engendered by the man or woman,
when they were alive.
They might then be suspicious that anyone who died
whilst this threat persisted, had died because
of the activities of the first reanimated corpse.
So the idea of a plague of vampires was born.
Were they right? Or were they only superstitious for believing this?
It's an old belief, if it goes right back to our
cultural beginnings. If the ancient Egyptians,
Chaldeans, Greeks, Romans, also believed it.
I'll carry on with some more tales of the revenant, shall i?
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