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Courtney
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“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?
— Oct 24, 2021 01:45AM
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?
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Courtney
is 84% done
Christ, he’s back onto lizard people and aliens.
We’re at 480, the appendix starts at 515. We’re getting close!!
— Nov 14, 2021 11:34PM
We’re at 480, the appendix starts at 515. We’re getting close!!
Courtney
is 76% done
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…
— Nov 14, 2021 10:10PM
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…
Courtney
is 74% done
“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.
— Nov 14, 2021 09:56PM
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.
Courtney
is 71% done
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.
— Nov 14, 2021 09:00PM
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.
Courtney
is 68% done
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.
— Nov 05, 2021 11:17AM
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.
Courtney
is 66% done
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.
— Nov 05, 2021 11:13AM
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.
Courtney
is 65% done
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.
— Nov 03, 2021 11:45PM
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.
Courtney
is 58% done
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?
— Nov 02, 2021 09:54PM
I wonder how much of this was used in other books and rearranged for here?
Courtney
is 56% done
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…?
— Nov 02, 2021 11:17AM
