The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures

A fascinating, beautifully illustrated guide to the monsters that are part of our collective psyche, from the host of the hit podcast Lore, soon to be an online streaming series. They live in shadows--deep in the forest, late in the night, in the dark recesses of our minds. They're spoken of in stories and superstitions, relics of an unenlightened age, old wives' tales, passed down through generations. Yet no matter how wary and jaded we have become, as individuals or as a society, a part of us...

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RamingoWS16 октября 2018 г.
We fear death because it means the loss of control, the loss of purpose and freedom. Death, in the eyes of many people, robs us of our identity and replaces it with finality.
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RamingoWS16 октября 2018 г.
Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year, and I bet you feel the same. It`s one of the few moments when we stop and acknowledge the shadows — the mystery and the unknown. Because life without mystery is stale and flat, and days like today help to add texture to our lives.
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RamingoWS16 октября 2018 г.
One last thing: according to the Bulgarian folklore surrounding vamprie hunters, there was one big risk for those in the profession. Anyone who served as a sabotnik or vampirazia was most at risk of becoming a vampire themselves. Even in England, Hopkins didn`t die a hero. Instead, he was viewed as a monster and bogeyman. Rather than going down in history as some sort of heroic hunter, he acquired a reputation of having been evil himself.
Because sometimes, whether the creature is a thing of our own invention or simply the focus of a personal obsession, the hunter is always at risk of becoming the very thing they pursue.
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