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DONE!

Fu-reaking /finally/.

Christ, he’s back onto lizard people and aliens.

We’re at 480, the appendix starts at 515. We’re getting close!!

Steiger interviewing a missionary, Solveig… “there is no word in the Malagasy language for love…”
Hmm… *google translate*.

“fITIAVANA”. Googles - Malay dictionaries: love, affection, tenderness, liking.

Oops? You’d think after… 60-ish years? Of living with a culture, you’d learn the language, but that’s just me…

“Her actual birth name was Mone, but she had acquired the name of Beatrice so she might be numbered among the Christian children and be allowed to go to a Christian school.”

Historical? Or is the U.S. still pushing a bunch of colonialist b.s.? I was/am in the Catholic system, and there are plenty of names from different countries - no one has to use an ‘approved’ name.

Skipping ahead.
He’s getting into microchip b.s., and that ties into the vaccine denial b.s. I have NO interest in reading about that garbage, esp. right now.

Ugh.. bad science.
You know how even in tv/movies, when they try to knock out/use gasses on someone, it's generally in a SEALED room? B/c gases dissipate into the air, need to get a big enough dose into a person...
The tinfoil hat's current claim is that the CIA was driving around a car emitting LSD from the tailpipe and expecting people to get a big enough dose from that to effect them.

Just realized... the story about the bus murder that bothered me so much?

Steiger goes /out of his way/ to attribute it to a Wendigo/cannibal spirit... and then totally neglects any mention in his re-telling of the actual cannibalism that took place. Like, he makes it sound like just a random stabbing.

We left ghosts & ghost festivals to return to zombies… zombie Nazis, that is.
I’m pretty sure there’s a cheesy horror film or video game about that.
Apparently returning soldiers told him & others horror stories as a kid. Again, nothing that’s not easily explained.
Now he’s on to… fluoride in drinking water. F**k my reading choices.

Apparently he couldn’t find enough info for a book - he’s gone totally off track, through Wendigo, werewolves, and now ghosts.
I wonder how much of this was used in other books and rearranged for here?

He uses Native American one paragraph, then switches to “Indian” for the rest. So he knows what was, at the time, the proper terminology, he’s just choosing not to use it…?

*reading*
Wendigo spirit… bus… bloody death.

Oh, hey, Alberta to Winnipeg… yeah, I guess the Wendigo legend is more northern… Meanwhile, my brain is working & -
wait. WAIT.
2008. This is… I remember this. This guy got released, like, a couple years ago.

OMG Steiger, NOT OKAY. TOO SOON.

Not seeing any sources for Steigers' version of the Wendigo origins, and it contradicts most of the ones I am finding. /Maybe/ it's based on European re-tellings where they got Wendigo mixed up with Werewolves, since he mentions them as well?

Also, the Wiki article and Legends of America site are fairly identical. One of them definitely took info from the other - it it still citing if it's the exact full text?

This book is all over the place. I'm not entirely sure that the voodoo pantheon has much to do with zombies as a whole. There's a whole chapter on just the voodoo pantheon, and that chapter was rather lacking in any zombie connections. Also, it doesn't seem like the author knows much about historical vampires. Not sure if I want to keep reading this.

So… we’re supposed to believe these native peoples just /believed/ the researchers word that he had magic powers, and the numbness had nothing to do with the liquid he had just injected them with?

And the guy didn’t realize going into this that “Hey, maybe watching a child be sacrificed isn’t going to be an entertaining research experience?!

Local laws, witnesses - is he an accessory, then?

I like the stories of Timmy, and Violette - they’re interesting/entertaining. Maybe this writer (a ‘local psychic’, I think she was said to be) is just a better storyteller.

Mistycah… is that supposed to be mystique? Like she changed her name, but didn’t look up how to spell it first??

“Black Cat Mama Couteaux never used Hoodoo-Voodoo dolls except for very important matters.”

And… earlier in the book you explained how “Voodoo dolls” aren’t actually a vodoun thing at all, but based on poppets from European folklore. So why’s she using them at all? Is the Hoodoo part based on European practices?

All this stuff on LaLaurier and a ‘devil baby’… she fled an angry mob after her house started on fire, and people realized what she’d been doing according to most of the actual accounts.

Most sites say there’s no proven connection btwn. Laveau and LaLaurier - did he use American Horror Story as research? ; and while LaLaurier is far from a saint, they’re taking every rumour and exaggeration as fact here.

How the hell are we supposed to believe you could see that someone *several feet away from you*, and getting further every second *as you /drive/* didn’t have /pupils/?!?

Irises, /maybe/, but pupils? And, like, it’s not necessarily unnatural? Certain types of blindness, or, hell, coloured contacts.

…I freaking knew he’d be connected to that site.

There’s a site mentioned in the book, & it’s come up a couple of times trying to search for other sources on some of the stories & historical personages he mentions in the book. *Shockingly* (not) that’s the only site that comes up. And a bunch of illustrations from the book are on the site - as well as a pic that wouldn’t load but says it’s Steiger.

Still inconsistent. Half the time he treats Vodoun respectfully, as a valid religion, and now he’s back to scaremongering tactics trying to make it “spoo~ky”.

Maman Brigitte is back to being Brigid.

Before, he said the ‘wildly sexual’ dances were just performances for tourists, now he’s claiming the real ceremonies are like that as well.

“I poked around a bit, but wasn’t invasive.”

You… lied to housekeeping to let you into her hotel room and were snooping around. You were already invasive, dude. Just because you didn’t want to risk being charged for theft by going into her luggage doesn’t make it non-creepy.

Why didn’t you just wait outside her room for her to return?

She likely just pulled a ‘sleight of hand’ (such as it is) under the water, especially with him distracted by her bare chest.
The physical effects he mentions - could be exhaustion, they’ve been running this game about 24 hours - could likely be drugs, as well, whether knowingly or not.

The fact that these people seem so quick to jump to these bizarre explanations is a bit disturbing.

Everyone knew there was a LARP game going on. This was probably another group who made up their own side-story, who wanted to make things interesting or bring different folklore than the usual vampire stuff in.
Because that… is not how taking blood works. At all. Even aside from needing a tourniquet, and needing to stop the blood after, you can’t just blindly stab someone under the water.

2/?

“It was then that I saw the vial, which must have had a needle at its tip. The guy was still mesmerized… Again her hands with the vial went beneath the water. A few seconds later, she pulled back away from the redhead… In her hands held high above her head was the vial. It was now filled with blood.”

Another “true account”. So many issues, here. *sigh*

Pt. 1

“Didn’t like the alien conspiracy explanation? Here’s a science-y one… that also leads back to aliens! Psych!” 👽 🦎 🐍

“Nearly every ancient culture has has its legends of wise Serpent Kings who came from the sky…”

On the one hand this is making me go “Stargate! :D”

On the other hand, while I’ve never been super into alien stuff, isn’t this the one usually connected to a bunch of anti-Semitic,secret society b.s.?

Earlier: “A New World Loa, Maman Brigitte is probably traceable back to the Irish Saint Brigid.”
…
Now: “Oya (Yansa) is the goddess of storms… and her syncretized Saint is Theresa. … In Vodou, Oya is called Maman Brigette.”

Not sure if it’s just badly explained, or getting the research mixed up. It’s a bit confusing, though.