Hi Edith:
Mind you, I didn't expect the garlic to work. And I don't believe it
would have worked independently.
"Few plants have more legends than Garlic. A Mohammedan legend related
that "when Satan stepped out from the Garden of Eden after the fall of
man, Garlick sprang up from the spot where he placed his left foot, and
Onion from that where his right foot touched." In Europe, it was
believed to be protection against the "evil eye" and to make witches
and vampires disappear at its very sight. Racers who chewed a bit of
garlic thought they could not be beaten. Hungarian jockeys attached a
piece of garlic to their horse's bits to prevent the competition from
winning. In Bram Stoker's Dracula, a doctor strewed the room with
garlic and hung a necklace of garlic around a woman's throat in the
belief that garlic would repel vampires. During the Dark Ages, people
believed it could ward off the plague and wore garlands of it as
protection. In fact, as recently as 1917 and 1918, Americans wore
garlic garlands in public during influenza epidemics."
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/feb2001/981412302.Me.r.html
My long time interpretation of vampire mythology centers around the idea
that all forms of vampirism represent parasitic manifestations.
If the skin parasites were repelled by garlic, then the NEW hatchlings
would seek out a new home.
Kind Regards,
Jason
ejohns9...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 5/28/2006 11:37:56 P.M. Central Standard Time,
new...@aapt.net.au writes:
Brilliant, Jason, thanks for sharing that. It's reassuring.
Interesting
about the garlic necklace; modern man is really quite contemptuous and
dismissive of things the older generations used to do. They didn't
do it
because of double blind tests, they did it because someone
experimented with
what was to hand, found something that worked and shared the info with
others. Really rather like you today.
Rowena
I too thought it a great post. It's the first positive note we've had
on this illness.
However, I could see taking the garlic internally but don't understand
the reason for
wearing it. Guess I watched too many vampire movies as a child. It
does seem
like I've read where people who survived the Black Plague centuries ago
ate and
wore garlic. Guess I need to do more reading on garlic.
Thanks again Jason
Edith
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