LL-L "Tradition" 2010.05.13 (07) [EN]

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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at fleimin.demon.co.uk>

Subject: LL-L "Tradition" 2010.05.13 (04) [EN]



> From: Hellinckx Luc <luc.hellinckx at gmail.com>
>

> I did mean "Peter Murphy", the Bauhaus-singer. Saw him crawling out of

Ah, I thought you meant the one from Sacristy as he's Scottish  :)


> a coffin a couple of years ago during a gig in Belgium (Lokeren). He
> was wearing a long black cape...I couldn't discern if he had his fangs
> on, but he kept the cape on for quite a while. Which isn't that odd
> for a godfather, is it?

Let me guess... the song was Bela Lugosi is Dead and he was chucking the
cape on the floor and dying on it or something at the end...


> Unless you can find proof that vampire bats are particularly fond of
> the Lowlands, I'd suggest we continue this banter on Facebook...Ron
> suddenly showed up on my radar ;=)

I'm still confused about the Facebook thing... give it time!

> Now there I have the connection with your uncanny story in the crypt
> about the "Ferranti Spectre"...Ron has left the building again ;=)

My other story on in the crypt, "Nine Fragments", is a vampire story.


> Now I wonder of course if we have homegrown truly Lowlandic
> "protective spirits" too?

In Scotland we have Brownies: not protectors, but trolls that come to
houses in the middle of the night and do household favours like washing
and sewing.

Sandy Fleming
http://scotstext.org/



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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>

Subject: Tradition


Sandy,

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.

As for the Brownies you mentioned (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownie_%28folklore%29), in Germany,
specifically in Cologne, their equivalents are the *Heinzelmännchen* (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinzelm%C3%A4nnchen).

It all goes back to the large Eurasian cultural complex of household
deities. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_deity).


Regards,
Reinhard/Ron
Seattle, USA



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