I’m especially thinking of some bizzare foreign horror movies that didn’t make sense to me and I figure there’s gotta be some from my own (US) culture that just make 0 sense outside of the context of having been raised in this culture.
I’m especially thinking of some bizzare foreign horror movies that didn’t make sense to me and I figure there’s gotta be some from my own (US) culture that just make 0 sense outside of the context of having been raised in this culture.
Not sure if this is what they’re talking about, but vampires are frequently depicted as having to stop and count large numbers of small things. So if you’re being chased by one you can throw out salt or grains of rice or seeds or whatever and they will have to stop and count it before they continue pursuing you. Or you can attack while they’re preoccupied too I guess. That’s where you get the count from Sesame Street.
Whoa, no way. THAT’S why he’s the Count? I thought it was a royalty/ bloodline thing.
In general, vampires existed to me as a commentary on colonialism, class, and the advantages to longevity. Vampires as “blood suckers of the poor”, to quote Popa Wu, who was quoting Louis Farrakhan.
I didn’t know the ‘stop and count objects’ element.
Question, though, as I think this through: would that not extend as an antisemitic trope?
(A half hour of reading later.)
TIL there is an antisemitic history to vampires.
[1] Bloodsuckers: Vampires, Antisemitism And Nosferatu At 100
[2] The Antisemitic History of Vampires
[3] How Vampires Became Jewish
[4] Blood Libel: The Anti-Semitic Roots of Vampirism
I’ve never heared of that before. Thanks!