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Leprechauns
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By June K. Williams
Aka Weebit Molly O’Sunshine
May the curse of Mary Malone, her nine blind illegitimate children and a libidinous leprechaun chase you so far over the hills of Damnation that the Lord himself can’t find you with a telescope.
On St. Patrick’s Day it seems that everyone wants to be Irish and images of leprechauns seem to pop up everywhere. 
Not to rain on the parade but leprechauns have nothing to do with St. Patrick’s Day. They have a day of their own thank you very much, Leprechaun Day, held on May 13th. Having said that, there are few things that remind people more of Ireland than leprechauns and St. Patrick’s Day is the day most associated with the Irish throughout the world so perhaps I shouldn’t be nitpicking. Nitpicking and finding loopholes in agreements are very fairy traits and as leprechauns are not only a species of fae and Irish to boot it was only natural to a little pernickety.
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Hollywoods Crush On Vampires
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by Stefica Budimir-Bekan
US production companies have been shooting films and TV shows about vampires, shape-shifters and other mythological creatures for ages but never before have those series created such hype around the globe. Vampires are the new heroes.
The film “Twilight,” based on the bestseller vampire series by Stephenie Meyer was released on 21 November 2008 and broke records at the US box offices with a 70.6 million dollars opening haul at the first weekend. The sequel “New Moon” was highly anticipated and hit the big screen on November 27, 2009 in the UK. The second-season premiere of “True Blood” based on the “The Southern Vampire Mysteries” series of novels by Charlaine Harris has become the most-watched programme with 3.7 million viewers on the US premium cable network HBO since the finale of “The Sopranos” more than two years ago. And last but not least, the series premiere of the CW’s The “Vampire Diaries” on 10 September 2009 was watched by 4.8 million viewers, a bigger audience than any other channel had to date. But, why are vampire stories so popular? Does love really suck? Read More→
Eric Northman VS Spike
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Why Choose?
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Being a Vampirologist it is part of my job to keep at 
least half an eye a quarter of the way open and focused on what new fictional vampire books, movies and TV shows are out there. Well, my job just got a whole lot easier now that Eric Northman is primed to take a larger role in the HBO series “True Blood.”
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My Favorite Vampire by Theresa Bane
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The Pishtaco
by Theresa Bane
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Lots of people are interested in vampires, as can be proven by the wild success of books like Twilight, the Sookie Stackhouse series, 
and the classic Interview With A Vampire. But for me, reading vampire fiction or watching vampire movies is difficult because I know the history and the mythology of the vampire so intimately that I get hung-up in the details. I know that authors use artistic license to make the vampire their own creation so that it best fits into the fictional world that they have created. What bothers me is that so many authors who utilize vampires in their fiction do not bother to do any research into vampires to begin with and simply alter someone else’s fictional vampire into their own. Paraphrasing is not inventing, it’s the watering down and streamlining of something else. To “re-invent” something that has been paraphrased is not creating something new and original. Read More→
Werewolves: Origins in European Folklore
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Origins in European Folklore
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by Matt Walker
You know what a werewolf is. Everyone does. The academic word for werewolf is “Lycanthrope”. A Greek word because Greek – even before Latin – was the language of scholars.
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