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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1930.
HALLOWE’EN,
REAL SIGNIFICANCES OF
FESTIVALS
SPIRITS AND. FAIRIES.
VAMPIRE OF MODERN
LIFE.
Superstition of Middle Ages Revived in Europe
GERMAN MURDERS.
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thinking, greater precision in the way
wisdom and other things we regions of the Balkan States.
wishes to depose the leader of à party whose Parliamentary ma- chinations are disagreeable to his
To picture fans, who associate ambitions, he merely has to sum- The eve of publication of this
number of the Yellow Dragon, that vampires almost exclusively with Įmon his favourite leader writer to the eve of November 2, is a very tiger skins and Oriental divans, compile a few suggestive adjec-special night for Scotsmen. It is a there is something startling in the tives, which in themselves, may feast night-Hallowe'en as it is latest Continental theory to account. for the series of mysterious,murders. be a jumble of invective, but the called.
Exactly why. "Hallowe'en is dis-In the east of Germany." general impression: conveyed by tinguished as a feast day we do not Some European newspapers are them may lead to the political know, but we are inclined to think, suggesting that the outbreak is due catastrophe that was desired. In that whatever its original import to vampirism, of the kind which graver instances the feelings of ay have been, its prominence flourished in the Middle Ages.
zowadays is chiefly due to the fact In actual fact, the belief in people can be so played upon by that It serves as "an excuse for the vampires who thrive on human blood the juggling of words that the glass." We have asked several has never entirely died out among sanest and the mildest of men Scotsmen what meaning the night the more ignorant of the peasantry will yield to the feverish impulses and their answers have been in Central Europe. It is a very old vague. We have even attended a theory; which is recorded on the awakened and pick up a rifle Hallowe'en Dinner ourselves mud tablets of Chaldea and Assyria, The need. then, for more concise and although we have come but it is still a living force in parts crammed with Scotch of Germany, Austria, and some
use of words, and the avoidance have been no nearer to finding Dodging the Vampire. of sensational phrases, is clear.jany real reason for it. Maybe, of According to the best authorities What an opportunity-yes. a course, that we are wrong in looking a vampire is "a dead body which "golden" opportunity, is here for a reason, and that such a night continues to live in the grave; which Is in itself sufficient justification for it leaves, however, by night, for the presented for the English Asso- the morning after.
purpose of sucking the bloed of the ciation to bestir itself in the in-
The real significance of the fes-living, whereby it la nourished and terests of world peace!
tival was undoubtedly in some way preserved in good condition." connected with spirits, hebgoblins, The picture Dracula recently witches, fairles and the like. It was aroused a great deal of Interest in said to be a fitting time for enquir- the superstition and it was followed ing of the fates the name and char-by a quite serious handbook acter of one's future husband or Modern Vampirism: Its Dangers wife and other such affairs, but, and How to Avoid Them. The fortunately perhaps, nobody now methods advocated in this work by seems to know exactly how these A. O. Eaves range from high idents rites should be performed. Bobble to the use of garlic and the placing Burns has written several verses on of small saucers of nitric acid in Hallowe'en which begin-
convenient places about the home.
That Vampirism is not a long exploded auperstition is evident from a book by Herbert Mayo, M.D., formerly Senior Surgeon of Middle- sex Hospital, and Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at King's College. It is called, "On the Truth Contained in Popular Super- stitions," and is dated 1851.
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ADJECTIVES.
brutalised, flung about, and set The most interesting Talkie down with unthinking contempt, talks of the week appear in our Films & Drama page to-day, that they are mere shapeless Cinema patrons should not miss masses of no meaning of their them.
own, and only of importance as) - little bits of colour with 'which Wong Ching, six years of age, who was taken to the Government
"Upon that night, when fairies
light
On Cassilis Downans dance, Or owre the laya, in splendid
blaze,
On sprightly coursers prance; Or for Colean the rout is ta'en, Beneath the moon's pale beams; There, up the coye, to stray an' Among the rocks and streams
To sport that night —" The verses go
rove
on
to decorate a noun. With such an Civil Hospital on Wednesday, after various revellings and weird hap-succlnt account, of a superstition
example before us, it may seem easy, too easy, perhaps, to point to the danger of the misuse of terms, although, as the late Dean Alford remarked in 'his' valuable treatise, "The Queen's English,” (which Tait endorsed in "The Use
having accidentally fallen into the harbour at Salwanho, died at aix o'clock yesterday evening.
After describing the mathods of vampires and the means of avoiding their attacks, Dr. Mayo says: "This on to describe is no romancer's dream. It is a penings quite outside the ken of an which to this day survives in the Englishanan, but do not throw much East of Europe, where little more light on the exact meaning of it all, than a century ago it was frightfully although they emphasise the im- prevalent.
"At that period vampirism apread Pleading guilty to the unlawful portance of "sport that night." possession of 22 taels of raw opium;
Other sources also point to a con- like a pestilence through Servia and a Chinese was to-day find $1,000 nection with spirits and witches and Wallachia, causing numerous deaths, by Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central rites of a semi-religious character, and disturbing all the land with fear
of Words") words are thoughts Magistracy. Mr. A. W. Grimmitt and it almost seems as if Hallowe'en of the mysterious visitation, against “
their misuse expressed, and mean's rhuddled thinking. That
is a horrible reflection. The
Revenue Officer, prosecuted.
has remained in place of many which none felt himself secure.
"Here is something like a good. separate festival days, which have gradually dropped out until now all solid, practical popular delusion. Lam Wan-fong (17), a spinister, the fairies and spirits only receive Do I believe it? To be sure I do. majority of the members of the Kwong Wah Hospital suffering from It is well for us that the exact the people died like rotted sheep;
was yesterday admitted to the their observances on that one day. The facts are matters of history an overdose of adalin, which she is functions of Chinese festival days and the cause and method was, in alleged to have swallowed in an are better remembered, or they also their belief, what has just heen attempt to commit suicide at 623 might all be kept at one time, and
stated."
"Proof" for Sceptics. Shanghal Street. The reason is we should then be lacking many a unknown.
holiday.-Yellow. Dragon.
DAMMING
NOVEL METHOD USED IN CANADA.
HEROIN.
London, Sept. 16.
Dr. Mayo quotes as evidence a document signed by three regimental surgeons and formally 'countersign- ed by a lieutenant and sub- lieutenant. The date is June 7,
near Belgrade,
a0
be
British race misuse words in their daily conversations and cor- respondence, and there can be very little doubt that a lot of muddled thinking goes on, be cause of, or in spite of, this fact. At the Hotel Savoy to-morrow To-day people appear to be in too evening, the "C" Dancing Academy great a hurry to think, for think will hold a ballroom dancing.com BIG DRUG SEIZURE. 1732, and the place is Mednegna,
petition for which, a large number ing is a labour for which only of entries have been received. It
Here is a specimen-case: "A Believe it or not, we journalists the conscientious usually are in-is a long time since a competition | POLICE FIND £4,500 WORTH OF
Woman of the name of Miliza' had grow weary of the word-prison clined, be they good men or bad. of this nature has been held, and it
died at the end of a three months' should attract considerable pubile | which, by an unwritten law of The direct results of modern interest.
illness. The body had been buried letters, is supposed to circum-education are to teach people to
Two months, shadowing of a ninety odd days. In the chest was "dope" gang known as the "Inter-liquid blood. The body was de- scribe our presentations to the remember, to pass examinations,
national Six" by the police of four clared by a heyduk, who recognised public. It is even considered to speak correctly, but hardly
RIVER. countries has led to the seizure of it to be in better condition, and heresy (omitting the prefix ever to think, or at least, to think
$1,500 worth of herein in Rotter fatter than it had been in the dam.
woman's lifetime." "rank") to use the uncommon independently of the mass opin-
The drug, which weighed over Dr. Mayo contends that word, however accurately it may ion. It seems to be sufficient that
two hundredweight, was found in epidemic of vampirism may convey one's meaning. Quite the teacher alone should do the
boxes labelled "borax" on board a started by a few premature burials; recentir the China Mail upset all, thinking, but he is brought up
German steamer. The heroin was but he can. find no satisfactory ex- traditions of journalese by intro-according to the same plan, plus
manufactured in Constantinople and planstion of the vampire when on A new method of damming was consigned to Americans, Japan- the rampage. ducing “obfuscation" with con a smattering of "psychology.
river has been carried out recently ese, Frenchmen, Germinds and Swiss, Mr. Eaves's explanation, and that of other authors who deal in old ajderable emphasis and deflance that overated effort to substitute in Canada. The experiment was most well-known sthugglers,
The financial side of the business superstitions veneered with new It was a good, strong word, with psychoanalysis for the cane. It made at Chute a Caron, on the
River Saguenay 14 miles above was transacted through, Dutch theories, is that vampires are bad nothing of your pretty-pretty, is most unfortunate, from Chicoatini, in Quebec.
banks. The transactions were chiefly men and women who have died," dilettante: airs about it. But no the point of view of the amount The method consisted in build carried out in Paris. ⠀
either by accident or suicide, but doubt it offended the susceptibili of money wasted on education, ing a large columa of concrete on It is believed that a clue to the who cannot get away from their the edge of the river channel whereabouts of the heroin was acel earth life because their desire for ties of the pedants, to whom that most of our independent shaped on its inward side in a dentally, "betrayed by a French their old days is too strong." They nevertheless, Gertrude Stein and thinkers are uneducated men and cordance with the conformation of woman, member of the gang. seek to live vicariously, by feeding the Sitwells are not anathema women. And such are dangerous, the river bed, and then blasting The police acted as the result of on the emanations arling" from because they have captured the
the not in that they think too much, away the base of the block so that information from the League of blood and alcohol; public houses and
it should fall into the river and Nations Ticit Drugs Committee.
alnughter houses are thronged hearts and tickled the purses of but in that they have nothing to completely fill, its bed.
with these unhappy creatures." Their needs, he "claime, ex- fashionable magazine Editors, balance their own Ideas, and they The experiment was a complete
plain the customs of offering blood Half the trouble in the world become egoista, socialists, or success. The dam had been carri-
aacrifices. due to the misuse of words, and atheists
ed up to each side of the actual
In extreme cases, vampires are I said to obtală control of other Not a litttle of the blame is to bed of the main stream, and it was a treaty for the limitation of un-
Se necessary to divert this stream A brilliant ball given at Govern- human bodies in which to commit desirable adj ved would, in all be laid upon the newspapers and while the bed was bridged. A ment House last night by His Ex- their crimes
good the literary productions which block of concrete 100ft, high and cellency the Governor, Sir William dis nowadays pour from the presses weighing 10,000 tons was erected Peel, K.B.E., C.M.G. and Lady Peel, re in ever-rolling streams of ink little above the dam by the side of was attended by over three hundred vampirism, although it la no means and the stream. Its bond was blasted guesta, principal among whom in
complate, is that the belief originat petrated dried pulp. The true meanings of and the block fell upon the water cluded H. E. Major General J. We through earth, burial. Races who and awalowed with an enormous splash The Smellände C.B. CMG 030 cremate their dead have no such with the stream was thrown aside and flow G.0.0., Rear Admiral R. All superstition. There is always, the ed through the gates in the already CBE, the Hod Sir Sheu bon and possibility, with earth barlal, that built dam, only a small part of the Lady Chow, the Hou, Mr G GS human beings are buried aliv
aber continuing in its old chan-fackle and Mrs Mežica, Sir Robert vitingly, Mong people realiss and Lady Ho Tung, Mr. and Mrs. Yowadays that suffocation – would VM. Grayburn, the Hon. Mr. E. Bröllow immedia
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