Re: [DL] Accademia Occult

[Horace Black <horaceblack@yahoo.com>]

  Those are interesting points I'll have  to look into
those further, still there was no Buffy the vampire
slayer and Angel every week plus leisure time was a
lot harder to find.  Besides Accademia occult might
signify having read those stories plus a host of
material on old world arcane lore.

--- WayfarerStranger@aol.com wrote:

> Howdy all, 
> 
> Actually, I believe the average person in the
> American West would have a fair 
> hold of what supernatural monsters were -- thanks to
> such potboilers as 
> "Varney the Vampire" an "Wagner the Wher-Wolf" both
> of which came out in the 1840s. 
> And it is also kind of hard to over to look the fact
> that some train 
> companies were tossing mummies into their engines --
> a practice that Mark Twain 
> observed and commented on ("The conductor said,
> 'Throw me down one them kings, these 
> plebeians don't burn like ****!'")
> 
> Also, belife in vampirism was so prevelanet they
> were writing articles on it 
> as late as 1895.
> 



		
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