| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 208.1 | | COLEOS::GOBBINI | | Sat Nov 13 1993 09:33 | 9 |
| 208.2 | | PADNOM::MAILLARD | Denis MAILLARD | Tue Nov 16 1993 02:13 | 10 |
| 208.3 | I read the book, but... | ICARUS::NEILSEN | Wally Neilsen-Steinhardt | Wed Nov 17 1993 12:15 | 29 |
| 208.4 | Name & Title | HLDG00::OOSTENDE | | Thu Nov 18 1993 08:50 | 5 |
| 208.5 | yes, .4 has author and title of the book I read | ICARUS::NEILSEN | Wally Neilsen-Steinhardt | Thu Nov 18 1993 12:19 | 0 |
| 208.6 | new book | SCOBIE::DOWENS | The Wind is Beginning to Blow | Thu Nov 18 1993 17:58 | 4 |
| 208.7 | | PADNOM::MAILLARD | Denis MAILLARD | Thu Dec 30 1993 08:26 | 9 |
| 208.8 | Dracula the crime-fighter | COLEOS::GOBBINI | | Mon Apr 11 1994 17:03 | 12 |
| 208.9 | | PADNOM::MAILLARD | Denis MAILLARD | Tue Apr 12 1994 01:54 | 22 |
| 208.10 | | BAHTAT::CARTER_A | Rozan Kobar! | Thu Apr 14 1994 08:06 | 2 |
| 208.11 | | SMURF::BINDER | Ut res per me meliores fiant | Thu Apr 14 1994 09:53 | 3 |
| 208.12 | No need for metal parts | TLE::JBISHOP | | Thu Apr 14 1994 10:22 | 20 |
| 208.13 | | BAHTAT::CARTER_A | Rozan Kobar! | Fri Apr 15 1994 06:19 | 13 |
| 208.14 | A gold bucket might weigh 30 pounds. | SMURF::BINDER | Ut res per me meliores fiant | Fri Apr 15 1994 10:59 | 11 |
| 208.15 | I love low-tech high-tech, so to speak | TLE::JBISHOP | | Fri Apr 15 1994 11:30 | 41 |
| 208.16 | New Death in Castle Dracula | ANNECY::HARRISON_N | neil Harrison | Mon Feb 10 1997 07:41 | 19 |
| re .3
This is about as relevant to Dracula as the weight of gold buckets, and the
topic is 4 years stale now, but...
the Rumanians' guided tour of Castle Dracula included the staff surprising
visitors by springing out of sarcophagi. One suitably surprised American visitor
died of shock, and the practise was terminated.
This anecdote comes from Rosie Dew who toured through Rumania on a cycle in the
mid-1990's.
I imagine everyone knows that eating garlic helps keep vampires away, and
possibly even dracula himself, as demonstrated in Roman Polanski's vampiring
film, but WHY. Was the vampire aversion to garlic due purely to Bram Stokers
imagination, or does garlic posess some property which historically wards away
evil in general or bloodsuckers in particular. Or could it be simply that the
Vlads didn't like garlic?
Neil.
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| 208.17 | | PRSSOS::MAILLARD | Denis MAILLARD | Tue Feb 11 1997 11:33 | 6 |
| Re .16: I don't think that anything specific is known about the dietary
habits of the Vlads. You're probably right in that the garlic stuff
comes from Bram Stoker. Now did he invent it (maybe he thought garlic
was an awfull thing to eat), or did he take it from somewhere else? I
don't have a clue.
Denis.
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| 208.18 | Arsenic | ULYSSE::VISCIGLIO | Pas a l'abri d'un coup de bol | Tue Mar 04 1997 04:52 | 8 |
|
In the XVII th century, a common belief was that burning arsenic powder
was a mean to fight Vampires.
It seems that the further usage of garlic derived from arsenic
burning.. as the smelling is very very similar...
PYV
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