A Look At Horror Over The Years (5-6)
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DreadfulChildren - Part 5
The Cuban missile crises paved the way for nuclear annihilation. The counterculture turned the heat up with satanism. Child abuse became a problem, when satanic cults began using children as sacrifices. Vietnam became a household names with pictures of burned out foliage caused from Napalm. Children ran down streets in Vietnam with burned skin after a Napalm raid.
Books of the sixties involved worship of the dark gods. The Other, Rosemary's Baby, and The Exorcist. All involved unstable family structures in some way or another, children once again got the back-lash.
The Vietnam war didn't make life any easier for the American household. Books like The Exorcist stripped of its demonic possession theme is a cautionary tale of beleaguered single mother who believes she can endure no more, with the help of the Catholic doctrine does.
The Other looks closely at two twins one good and the other evil in a small Connecticut farm community. Things didn't get any easier for the children, as satanism grows so did books involving Child abuse. It's Alive became a number one best seller.
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WerewolfMan - Part 6
A werewolf in folklore mythology is a person that can change shape into a wolf, either purposefully, by using magic, or after being placed under a curse. The medieval chronicler Gervase of Tilbury associated the transformation with a full moon. Most modern fiction accepts the idea that a werewolf can be killed with a silver bullet. Although this isn't a feature of folk legends. Werewolves sometimes held to become vampires after death.
The name werewolf most likely derives from Old English wer (or were) and wulf. The first part, wer translates as "man". The second half, wulf, is the ancestor of English "Wolf", in some cases as the meaning "beast".
An alternative etymology derives the first part from Old English weri (to wear); The full form as wearer of wolf skin. As did, old name, which denoted of the bear like "berserker" who were said to wear wolf skin into battle. There are other ways that man can change into a werewolf, GhostlyChillsBookStore.com won't elaborate on, in this Newsletter.
Some werewolf lore is based on documented events. The Beast of Gevaudan was a creature that reportedly terrorized the general area of the former province of Gevaudan, in the Margeride Mountains in south-central France, between 1764 to 1767. It was described as a giant wolf and was said to attack livestock and humans indiscriminantly. A silver bullet can be used to kill the werewolf.
Put forward, the idea of werewolves (and vampires) are used to explain serial killings. Credibility comes from the idea that some serial killers indulge in practices (such as cannibalism, mutilation and cyclic attacks) commonly associated with werewolf attacks.