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fandomhigh2012-01-20 03:03 pm
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Chasing History's Monsters [Friday, Period 1]
A handwaved e-mail had been sent out to let the students know they were meeting in the classroom today.
A DVD player was set up in the front of the room, where Annja and Arya stood, waiting for their students to settle in.
"Vampire, a term that was popularized in the early 18th century," Annja began, starting up the DVD. "There haveve been numerous recordings of these entities in many cultures -- some even believed to go back to prehistoric times."
Arya's face remained stoic as she picked up the lecture. "People believed vampires to be mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence -- generally in the form of blood -- of living creatures, regardless of whether they are living or undead."
"The notion of vampirism has existed for millennia; cultures such as the Mesopotamians, Hebrews, Ancient Greeks, and Romans had tales of demons and spirits which are considered precursors to modern vampires. However, despite the occurrence of vampire-like creatures in these ancient civilizations, the folklore for the entity we know today as the vampire originates almost exclusively from early 18th-century southeastern Europe, when verbal traditions of many ethnic groups of the region were recorded and published. In most cases, vampires are revenants of evil beings, suicide victims, or witches, but they can also be created by a malevolent spirit possessing a corpse or by being bitten by a vampire. Belief in such legends became so pervasive that in some areas it caused mass hysteria and even public executions of people believed to be vampires," Annja continued.
Arya picked up a pile of papers that listed examples of vampires in myth and passed them out to the students.
"I thought today, we could watch a documentary on vampiric myth and next week, we'll discuss it further."
[OCD is a go.]
A DVD player was set up in the front of the room, where Annja and Arya stood, waiting for their students to settle in.
"Vampire, a term that was popularized in the early 18th century," Annja began, starting up the DVD. "There haveve been numerous recordings of these entities in many cultures -- some even believed to go back to prehistoric times."
Arya's face remained stoic as she picked up the lecture. "People believed vampires to be mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence -- generally in the form of blood -- of living creatures, regardless of whether they are living or undead."
"The notion of vampirism has existed for millennia; cultures such as the Mesopotamians, Hebrews, Ancient Greeks, and Romans had tales of demons and spirits which are considered precursors to modern vampires. However, despite the occurrence of vampire-like creatures in these ancient civilizations, the folklore for the entity we know today as the vampire originates almost exclusively from early 18th-century southeastern Europe, when verbal traditions of many ethnic groups of the region were recorded and published. In most cases, vampires are revenants of evil beings, suicide victims, or witches, but they can also be created by a malevolent spirit possessing a corpse or by being bitten by a vampire. Belief in such legends became so pervasive that in some areas it caused mass hysteria and even public executions of people believed to be vampires," Annja continued.
Arya picked up a pile of papers that listed examples of vampires in myth and passed them out to the students.
"I thought today, we could watch a documentary on vampiric myth and next week, we'll discuss it further."
[OCD is a go.]
Documentary
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And then she made sure she just faded away from sight so no one could tell she wasn't watching the movie.
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