[UA] The Outsider: miscellaneous observations

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Greg Stolze <holycrow at mindspring.com> wrote:
> >
> >The Vampire -- another Cain aspect -- emphasizes
> the
> >frightening/seductive power of the Outsider, the
> infectiousness of his
> >condition, and his invulnerability. The Whore plays
> the same sexual
> >role.
> 
> Actually, the Cain(e) --> Vampire connection is, I
> *think*, mostly a White
> Wolf confabulation.  <snip> Before Bram, vampires
> were more like a George
> Romero zombie, I think.  (Though the sexual vs.
> celibate thing certain adds
> another point of contrast with Christ.)
> 
> -G.
> 

In literature, vampires tended to crop up as monsters,
if they cropped up at all.  Byron and Pollidori's
vampire stories (or, in Byron's case, fragments of a
story) were derived more from German goblin tales
(like the Goblin Bridegroom.)In this vein, they were
grotesques and freaks.

In Romania, vampires were more like an inivisible evil
spirit that lived in a corpse.  The corpse tended to
be immobile.

=====
-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
The Electronic Nation of Yokeltania:
http://www.geocities.com/yokeltania/

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