Comment on In the Movie Sinners, how are the vampires able to attack them without being invited in?
Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Vampires are an allegory for germs and bacteria.
-they can’t enter unless you let them -silver was used as a common cure for diseases -cant see their reflection because most mirrors were made of silver nitrate -garlic was a common remedy for disease -priests would bless those who were sick
Etc…
Zombies are an allegory for today’s working environment, but that’s for another question
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They weren’t “allegory”. They were literally thought to be the cause of many things.
They were also just folk stories, too- people believed in things like vampires before they were blamed for the diseases, not the other way around.
Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 2 days ago
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 days ago
perhaps you can explain why correcting a myth (that folklore creatures were always allegory an not literal belief,) means I was hurt?
or perhaps you can address what I said.
belief in folklore predates blaming the creatures in folklore for things. things like nocturnal emissions, as an example. they’d have blame something else if they didn’t already believe in demons. (specifically succubi.)
these beliefs weren’t allegory. it was literally a demon haunted world. And for many, it still is.