How ancient are our fears not simply of dying but of the undead?
How ancient are our fears not simply of dying but of the undead?
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Uhm... why is the skeleton on the left is giving the one in the middle a handy?
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They're boning
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It's better than doing it yourself. 10/10 recommend
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After further reading, it's been posited that at least some vampire stories are about the wealthy upper class extraction of wealth from society.
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I like to think that there were at least a few clever shamans who faked their own deaths and then returned from the afterlife.
I know of at least one.
Actually, that guy did die. You got fooled by the person pretending to be him.
Like the Haitian Zombies? I just saw a documentary and the dude paid a lot of money to see a scam happen in real time.