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.Yetthese are only vestiges.Sepulchers from the Jomon period (4000 to 250 B.C.) have been opened inwhich skeletons were curled up, stretched out, or had stones placed on chest or head.Archaeologistsstill puzzle over some bodies buried in fetal positions, wondering whether they signify a return to thewomb or represent precautions taken against the return of dead people.Even touching a decomposingcorpse demands a purification rite, and Yomi, the Japanese land of the dead, is the decomposing corpsewrit large: a domain of impurity that, like most underworlds, is also the source of eventual regeneration.Yet, the exquisite refinement that is uniquely Japanese extended even to the ancient tomb.Mitfordnoted how the rich and noble are buried in several square coffins, one inside the other, in a sittingposition; and their bodies are partially preserved from decay by filling the nose, ears, and mouth withvermilion.In the case of the very wealthy, the coffin is completely filled in with vermilion. Japanese folklore had its share of demons, baby eaters, and ghouls, as Lafcadio Hearn madeknown in his In Ghostly Japan.The 19th-century literary critic and travel writer also belonged to thatfirst generation of Westerners enraptured by Japan.Yet, he discovered something ineffably eerier in theappearance of a fleet of miniature ghost ships. During the Bon a three-day festival of the dead heldeach year in late summer tiny ship models, each bearing their own little working lanterns, were set afloaton the sea at night.Hearn swam out into the ocean to observe the spectacle firsthand:I watched those frail glowing shapes drifting through the night, and ever as they drifted scattering, underimpulse of wind and wave, more and more widely apart.Each, with its quiver of color, seemed a lifeafraid, trembling on the blind current that was bearing it into the outer blackness&.Are not weourselves as lanterns launched upon a deeper and a dimmer sea, and ever separating further and furtherone from another as we drift to the inevitable dissolution? Soon the thought-light in each burns itself out:then the poor frames, and all that is left of their once fair colors, must melt forever into the colorlessVoid&.Even in the moment of this thought I began to doubt whether I was really alone, to ask myselfwhether there might not be something more than a mere shuddering of light in the thing that rocked besideme: some presence that haunted the dying flame, and was watching the watcher.A faint cold thrill passedover me, perhaps some chill uprising from the depths, perhaps the creeping only of a ghostly fancy.Old superstitions of the coast recurred to me, old vague warnings of peril in the time of the passage ofSouls.I reflected that were any evil to befall me out there in the night, meddling, or seeming to meddle,with the lights of the Dead, I should myself furnish the subject of some future weird legend.So he whispered a hurried Buddhist farewell, then struck out for the shore.ARE IGHTINGSR SPage 93 ABC Amber ePub Converter Trial version, http://www.processtext.com/abcepub.htmlVoyage across the vast Pacific, and the vampire gets only more elusive.In Melanesia, where chiefs wereonce buried standing up with just their heads emerging from the sand, the dead are envisioned as eatinglizards and excrement, among other unpleasantness.In New Caledonia, the dead are likely to return indeceptive form, like that of a living man, but they can be detected at night because they snore, or by themore reliable sign that their body disappears and leaves only the head visible.In north Malekula, thedead are ever present, their skulls arranged on a flat stone in the men s lodge, where people invoke themby spitting continuously in their direction.Though such examples can be dug up indefinitely, few vampires are found.Anthropologist George R.Stetson discovered evidence in Captain Cook s voyages that, asStetson put it, the Polynesians believed that the vampires were the departed souls, which quitted thegrave& to creep by night into the houses and devour the heart and entrails of the sleepers, who afterwarddied. Other scholars, by contrast, have come up empty-handed.As in so many cultures worldwide,however, those of the South Seas warn the living that ominous occurrences should be expected whenburial rituals for the dead are not observed, or if their resting places are disturbed later on.A vampire tradition may not exist in the New World, either but that hardly renders its everyelement absent.Among the Ojibwa of the Great Lakes region, for example, the soul that failed to enterthe next world was doomed to return and to reanimate its body.In a Cherokee legend published in theJournal of American Folklore in 1892, some folklorists perceive an explanation of tuberculosis.A Demon of Consumption, goes the tale, once lived in a cave and possessed an iron finger.At night hewould steal out, impersonate a member of a given family, enter his house, select his victim, beginfondling his head, and run his soft fingers through his hair until the unsuspecting victim would go to sleep.Then with his iron finger would he pierce the victim s side and take his liver and lungs, but without pain.The wound would immediately heal, leaving no outward mark [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Yetthese are only vestiges.Sepulchers from the Jomon period (4000 to 250 B.C.) have been opened inwhich skeletons were curled up, stretched out, or had stones placed on chest or head.Archaeologistsstill puzzle over some bodies buried in fetal positions, wondering whether they signify a return to thewomb or represent precautions taken against the return of dead people.Even touching a decomposingcorpse demands a purification rite, and Yomi, the Japanese land of the dead, is the decomposing corpsewrit large: a domain of impurity that, like most underworlds, is also the source of eventual regeneration.Yet, the exquisite refinement that is uniquely Japanese extended even to the ancient tomb.Mitfordnoted how the rich and noble are buried in several square coffins, one inside the other, in a sittingposition; and their bodies are partially preserved from decay by filling the nose, ears, and mouth withvermilion.In the case of the very wealthy, the coffin is completely filled in with vermilion. Japanese folklore had its share of demons, baby eaters, and ghouls, as Lafcadio Hearn madeknown in his In Ghostly Japan.The 19th-century literary critic and travel writer also belonged to thatfirst generation of Westerners enraptured by Japan.Yet, he discovered something ineffably eerier in theappearance of a fleet of miniature ghost ships. During the Bon a three-day festival of the dead heldeach year in late summer tiny ship models, each bearing their own little working lanterns, were set afloaton the sea at night.Hearn swam out into the ocean to observe the spectacle firsthand:I watched those frail glowing shapes drifting through the night, and ever as they drifted scattering, underimpulse of wind and wave, more and more widely apart.Each, with its quiver of color, seemed a lifeafraid, trembling on the blind current that was bearing it into the outer blackness&.Are not weourselves as lanterns launched upon a deeper and a dimmer sea, and ever separating further and furtherone from another as we drift to the inevitable dissolution? Soon the thought-light in each burns itself out:then the poor frames, and all that is left of their once fair colors, must melt forever into the colorlessVoid&.Even in the moment of this thought I began to doubt whether I was really alone, to ask myselfwhether there might not be something more than a mere shuddering of light in the thing that rocked besideme: some presence that haunted the dying flame, and was watching the watcher.A faint cold thrill passedover me, perhaps some chill uprising from the depths, perhaps the creeping only of a ghostly fancy.Old superstitions of the coast recurred to me, old vague warnings of peril in the time of the passage ofSouls.I reflected that were any evil to befall me out there in the night, meddling, or seeming to meddle,with the lights of the Dead, I should myself furnish the subject of some future weird legend.So he whispered a hurried Buddhist farewell, then struck out for the shore.ARE IGHTINGSR SPage 93 ABC Amber ePub Converter Trial version, http://www.processtext.com/abcepub.htmlVoyage across the vast Pacific, and the vampire gets only more elusive.In Melanesia, where chiefs wereonce buried standing up with just their heads emerging from the sand, the dead are envisioned as eatinglizards and excrement, among other unpleasantness.In New Caledonia, the dead are likely to return indeceptive form, like that of a living man, but they can be detected at night because they snore, or by themore reliable sign that their body disappears and leaves only the head visible.In north Malekula, thedead are ever present, their skulls arranged on a flat stone in the men s lodge, where people invoke themby spitting continuously in their direction.Though such examples can be dug up indefinitely, few vampires are found.Anthropologist George R.Stetson discovered evidence in Captain Cook s voyages that, asStetson put it, the Polynesians believed that the vampires were the departed souls, which quitted thegrave& to creep by night into the houses and devour the heart and entrails of the sleepers, who afterwarddied. Other scholars, by contrast, have come up empty-handed.As in so many cultures worldwide,however, those of the South Seas warn the living that ominous occurrences should be expected whenburial rituals for the dead are not observed, or if their resting places are disturbed later on.A vampire tradition may not exist in the New World, either but that hardly renders its everyelement absent.Among the Ojibwa of the Great Lakes region, for example, the soul that failed to enterthe next world was doomed to return and to reanimate its body.In a Cherokee legend published in theJournal of American Folklore in 1892, some folklorists perceive an explanation of tuberculosis.A Demon of Consumption, goes the tale, once lived in a cave and possessed an iron finger.At night hewould steal out, impersonate a member of a given family, enter his house, select his victim, beginfondling his head, and run his soft fingers through his hair until the unsuspecting victim would go to sleep.Then with his iron finger would he pierce the victim s side and take his liver and lungs, but without pain.The wound would immediately heal, leaving no outward mark [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]