Dracula, by Bram Stoker - The Superstition That Made the Supernatural Powers

Title: Dracula, by Bram Stoker - The Superstition That Made the Supernatural Powers
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Dracula, by Bram Stoker - The Superstition That Made the Supernatural Powers

                 Bram Stoker did not invent the vampyre or the vampyres supernatural powers, they were both brought to you in part by superstition. Superstition influenced the abilities, limitations, and characteristics, Stoker gave Dracula by giving an explanation for un-scientific happenings. For example: 'The ancients believed that a mans shadow and his reflection in some measure represented his soul.'[Ashley 3] Could this be why Dracula cast no shadow and showed no reflection in mirrors? 'Superstition links causes …showed first 75 words of 719 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 719 total…Superstition links causes and effects in ways that defy logic and fail all impartial tests.' [Ashley 1] Superstition is exemplified through the supernatural by the characteristics, limitations, and abilities of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula.' In Stoker's book, in chapter 18 VanHelsing states 'All we have to go upon are traditions and superstitions. These do not at the first appear much, when the matter is one of life and death, nay of more than either life or death.'[Stoker ]

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