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what if Henris actually got caught and put in jail AU...it's a working title. time accurate mugshot photo quality under the cut
they're not all of his crimes but just the ones they got solid evidence on. they managed to raid his house and find 11 of the 23 bodies behind his murder charges by an incinerator that contained traces of human remains, though because of the non-existent genealogy of the time they weren't able to determine anything further than that
one day I'll win the award for "most evil and fucked up protagonist" just you wait
Interesting article! The disease I was thinking of is porphyria. But it's also very intriguing to see garlic linked to rabies.
I wonder, though, if the burning properties of raw garlic that they talk about in the article might be part of the puzzle. The article dissuades the reader from eating raw garlic because it can cause second degree burns (which, as an aside, yikes, and I had no idea). Traditionally fire was used to purify. That's why heretics and eventually witches were executed by burning. The Church believed it was necessary to burn the heretic/witch to cleanse the world of their corruption and evil. So... maybe stuffing garlic in the decapitated head of a vampire is less about garlic as a cure for vampirism as a disease and more a method of burning purification.
Though why not take the next logical step and burn the body?
I know it's kinda late in the game for this question, but why garlic?
I'm aware of the idea that vampire stories were inspired by a real disease... I cannot for the life of me recall its name. And people suffering from it are sensitive to light and strong flavors and smells.
But is there anything more to it? The disease idea works to explain why garlic repels vampires, but why stuff it in the mouth of a decapitated vampire head?
And I saw that some have argued that Stoker was inspired by the Potato Famine, which he lived through, I gather. People would weaken and die, and some were buried alive. How does garlic fit with that?
Did Stoker find out about garlic from a specific source, and if so, what does the source say about it?