Lord Ruthven

Are Etruscans Really Vampires? Pop culture and Hollywood has long entertained us for decades with vampires like Dracula in literature, movies, and television shows. Vampires are normally portrayed as blood-sucking creatures with fangs that lived in a coffin and only came out at night since the sun would burn their fair skin. And let us not forget their romantic quest to seduce a human to satisfy their thirst for human blood. A fascinating characteristic has been their ability to live forever

The gothic elements presented in the novel constitute the idea that the novel could be about vampires. The embedded idea of the supernatural in her novel aids her in displaying her message regarding how love never stops. The vampire motif begins when Catherine becomes ill. In How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Foster) it is evident that diseases and sicknesses are an efficacious literary tool in a novel. According to Foster, one of the factors that constitute a “prime literary disease” is that

As I binge watch The Vampire Diaries lying prostrate on my bed, I drool over the hot vampire that I fantasize will sweep me off my feet. I catch myself dreaming of a bloodsucking vampire that will bite my neck, but then reality kicks in and I remember that I am single. I know vampires are not real, and I realize that I enjoy being single more than I like being in a relationship, even if there are fetching and thirsty bloodsuckers out there. While I do think about having someone to spend my time with

In Celtic folklore there is one common figure that is portrayed as Death. In Ireland the creature was known as the Dullahan. It is considered to be a type of unseelie (bad) fairy. Dullahan are headless beings, although the Dullahan has no head on its shoulders, it carries its head with it. Either on the saddle-brow of his horse or upraised in his right hand. The flesh of the head is said to have the color and consistency of “moldy cheese”. The head’s eyes are black, and constantly dart around; a

The date was June 28th, 1861. On this day, Jefferson Davis Tant was born to William and Mattie Tant of Paulding County, Georgia (Tant 16-17). His namesake was derived from the Confederate president who had presided over one of America’s bloodiest conflicts: the Civil War (17). Merely two months and sixteen days before, this war had officially begun. Shortly thereafter, Tant’s father, William, heeded the call of the Confederacy and left his family behind to fight against the Union armies (17-18).

In about 1000 to 1600 CE in history two warriors were made with a different name and in two different countries. “More than a thousand years ago, a class of professional warriors arose, who swore oaths of loyalty to noble lords and fought to the death to defend them in battle” (Overview). The two warriors were samurai and knights. Samurais were fighting for Japan in the class of military retainers of the daiyomes while across the seas the knights were fighting on horseback in Europe. To keep order

a cottage maiden who was seduced and used by the lord of the estate for which she worked. She was surprised and taken a back by the fact that someone so great and powerful could be slightly interested in her, and so she automatically fell in love with him. It wasn't until after he had slept with her that he left her for her cousin, Kate. The cottage maiden was devastated that he had done that to her. She felt unclean and unwanted. The lord asked for Kate's hand in marriage and she accepted

makes this race so hard to run; then I say to my soul, take courage, the Lord will make a way somehow!” In other words, though I’ve been beaten, hurt and taken advantage of, I know that the Lord will make a way somehow. Though the pain in my body becomes unbearable, I know that He will make a way somehow. Like a ship, I’ve been tossed and driven, battered by the angry sea of life, yet, I will encourage my soul for the Lord will make a way somehow. Every now and then, you’ve got to learn to encourage

arrived to the letter she’d Ned, but scarcely enough time had passed for a raven to fly to the Wall and back again, even if the weather remained fair throughout its journey. Tyrell had sent a vaguely worded response to his brother’s letter hinting that Lord Redwyne’s fleet might be needed somewhere other than Dragonstone, but of course King’s Landing was even further from Winterfell than the Wall was so they had no reply from Ser Garlan as of yet. Tyrell had actually given his letter to Robb to read before

feudal system small communities were formed near the lord and the manor. The king, the church, barons, and lords owned land. The kings in feudal times “Believed God gave them the "divine right" to rule”(Stutz & Warf 29). The king granted or rented the land to the baron for soldiers or taxes or shield money. The baron ruled a large area of land called fiefs that was divided among lords who were in charged of the land and served in the army. Lords and Barons swore