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L O W L A N D S - L - 13 May 2010 - Volume 07<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
<span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Sandy Fleming</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:sandy@fleimin.demon.co.uk">sandy@fleimin.demon.co.uk</a>></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L "Tradition"
2010.05.13 (04) [EN]</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">> From: Hellinckx Luc
<<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>><br>
></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">>
I did mean "Peter Murphy", the Bauhaus-singer. Saw him crawling out
of</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Ah, I thought you meant the
one from Sacristy as he's Scottish :)</p>
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> a coffin a couple of years ago during a gig in Belgium (Lokeren). He<br>
> was wearing a long black cape...I couldn't discern if he had his fangs<br>
> on, but he kept the cape on for quite a while. Which isn't that odd<br>
> for a godfather, is it?</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Let me guess... the song was
Bela Lugosi is Dead and he was chucking the<br>
cape on the floor and dying on it or something at the end...</p>
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> Unless you can find proof that vampire bats are particularly fond of<br>
> the Lowlands, I'd suggest we continue
this banter on Facebook...Ron<br>
> suddenly showed up on my radar ;=)</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">I'm still confused about the
Facebook thing... give it time!<br>
<br>
> Now there I have the connection with your uncanny story in the crypt<br>
> about the "Ferranti Spectre"...Ron has left the building again
;=)</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">My other story on in the
crypt, "Nine Fragments", is a vampire story.</p>
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> Now I wonder of course if we have homegrown truly Lowlandic<br>
> "protective spirits" too?</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">In Scotland we
have Brownies: not protectors, but trolls that come to<br>
houses in the middle of the night and do household favours like washing<br>
and sewing.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><br>
Sandy Fleming<br>
<a href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/</a></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
Tradition</p>
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Sandy,<br>
<br>
The Village Commons is meant to be a social hang-out, a place for people to socialize,
get to know each other better and indulge in more lighthearted exchanges (not necessarily
of the heavy-duty Lowlands type). As Luc put it, the List is the school while the
Commons is the after-hours pub.<br>
<br>
As for the Brownies you mentioned (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownie_%28folklore%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownie_%28folklore%29</a>),
in Germany, specifically in Cologne, their equivalents
are the <i>Heinzelmännchen</i> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinzelm%C3%A4nnchen">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinzelm%C3%A4nnchen</a>).<br>
<br>
It all goes back to the large Eurasian cultural complex of household deities. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_deity">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_deity</a>).</p>
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Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</p>
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