The custom was practiced among ancient Chinese tocommemorate Shen Nong, second of the mythical emperors in Chinese mythology who taught people how to do farm work. Also, influenced byBuddhism, people thought that willow could repel ghosts. 清明插柳习俗,一说是为了纪念“教民稼穑”的农事祖师神农氏,...
Grow rosemary in your yard, keep a sprig of it in your pocket or hang a wreath on your door. In ancient Greece, people burned rosemary at shrines to repel evil spirits and keep illness at bay. Place a flat mirror in each room facing the doorway. The ghost sees its reflection upon ent...
where his blood spilled it is said that St John’s Wort grew from the blood. European peasants burnt the plant on June 24, which is John the Baptist birthday, to dispel evil spirits. Because the plant “bleeds red” it was used for wounds during the ...
In some accounts, the evil spirits would suck their victims' blood directly from the heart. Initially, a strigo needed to return to the grave regularly, just like an upir. If townspeople suspected someone had become a strigo, they would exhume the body and burn it, or run spikes through ...
Selectively sampling from several versions of the vampire myth and adding some details of his own, Stoker formed the standard for the modern vampire. Unlike the vampires in the eastern European tradition, Stoker's monster loses power in thesunlight, is repelled by crucifixes and has acute intell...
The story that emerged (after lots of hand-waving and recounting of exaggerated deeds of valour) was that, with a profusely bleeding left buttock, a naked Paul had been able physically to repel the initial attack of the zombie – which then turned its attention to a less troublesome target:...
“All things which are similar and therefore connected, are drawn to each other’s power,” according to the medieval magus Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim. It is a rule of reality and synchronicity that we attract or repel different things according to the emotions, the attitudes, ...
if we were suddenly invaded tomorrow, I can guarandamntee you that none of you on this board would have the moral or physical courage to use your second amendment rights to repel the attackers. No, instead, I would be knocking on the doors of my military pals to fight back the attackers...
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