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wygolvillage · 2 years

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those posts that are like "the bloofer lady didnt kill those kids she must be hanging onto her humanity as much as she can while trying to satiate her hunger <3" are very cute but um. did we forget dracula technically "kept lucy alive" over several nights so he could come back for seconds. i assumed it was the same thing

#smth to keep in mind with vampire literature especially of this era is that irl vampire myths were based around sickness that seemed to #waste you away like tuberculosis and so on #an important irl case is um. mercy brown i think?#she was recently deceased and blamed for her family coming down with tuberculosis and having the 'life slowly drained from them'#and iirc bram stoker was inspired by this particular case when he wrote dracula #its the slow drain thats part of the horror #dracula daily

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