{"id":7119,"date":"2015-04-13T16:50:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T22:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7119"},"modified":"2015-04-13T16:55:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T22:55:45","slug":"links-exorcists-vampires-siberian-shamans-and-the-new-gothic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7119","title":{"rendered":"Links: Exorcists, Vampires, Shamans, and the New Gothic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rutina Wesley and Kristin Bauer van Straten in “True Blood.”<\/p><\/div>\n

S<\/strong>o many links, so little time to comment. Pick one, two, or three of these to read. Mix and match. Fill your plate. Come back for more.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Sexy vampires threaten Catholic youth<\/a>, thus encouraging \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 “dabbling.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 Witchy craft: I am building these.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Another interesting article on the revival of Siberian shamanism.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 “An Ordinary Girl Born into a Family of Witches<\/a>” \u2014 in the famtrad sense. So of course she wants to be “normal,” because this is not Young Adult fantasy fiction. Or maybe it is.<\/p>\n

\u2022 An interview with Victoria Nelson, author of The Secret Life of Puppets<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0 on Gothicka, vampire heroes, human gods, and the “new supernatural.”<\/a> That happens to be the title of her new book.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So many links, so little time to comment. Pick one, two, or three of these to read. Mix and match. Fill your plate. Come back for more. \u2022 Sexy vampires threaten Catholic youth, thus encouraging \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 “dabbling.” \u2022 Witchy craft: I am building these. \u2022 Another interesting article on the revival […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,113,25,39,53,11,123,29],"class_list":["post-7119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christianity","tag-gods-of-the-city","tag-herbalism","tag-occultism","tag-russia","tag-shamanism","tag-vampires","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1QP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6087,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6087","url_meta":{"origin":7119,"position":0},"title":"Vampires and the Big Blue Marble","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I shared a cabin with Margot Adler and some other presenters at the Florida Pagan Gathering four years ago. At that point she had read about seventy vampire novels and was still going strong, looking for the answer to the question, \"Why do literary vampires fascinate us?\" Now she thinks\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"environmentalism\"","block_context":{"text":"environmentalism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=environmentalism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=133","url_meta":{"origin":7119,"position":1},"title":"Estonian shamanism site With thanks\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 2, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Estonian shamanism site With thanks to the dashing Odious and Peculiar, a link to a site on Estonian shamanism created by Aado Lintrop. Most of the links are in English, some in Estonian. But Lintrop links to the dreaded Michael Harner's site. Quick, call the Culture Police! (No, not them;\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8198,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8198","url_meta":{"origin":7119,"position":2},"title":"Pentagram Pizza at the Mongolian Grill","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Some links worth exploring: \u2022 In post-Soviet Mongolia, shamanism is a \"growth industry,\" says an MIT anthropologist. In Manuduhai Buyandelger's Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia, she writes how, \"shamanism is a historical memory for people who lost parts of their ancestral homeland, and who had been\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Mongolia\"","block_context":{"text":"Mongolia","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=mongolia"},"img":{"alt_text":"pentagrampizza","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/pentagrampizza-126x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1677,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1677","url_meta":{"origin":7119,"position":3},"title":"Teens, Vampires, and Seventeen magazine","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"June 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"If I were still teaching magazine writing, I would be sending students to this blog (which I found on Rod Dreher's blog). What a great feature-writing idea, albeit in blog form. (Which all goes to show how publishing is changing, &c. &c., and I am glad not to have to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"teens\"","block_context":{"text":"teens","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=teens"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6430,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6430","url_meta":{"origin":7119,"position":4},"title":"Anthropologist Describes Rebirth of Mongolian Shamanism","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"April 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A news release from the MIT News Office carries the subhead, \"MIT anthropologist finds that after Soviet domination, a rebirth of shamanism helped Mongolia rewrite its own history.\" The release continues, In 1990, as the Soviet Union was disintegrating, Mongolia, long a satellite of the U.S.S.R., regained its independence. 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Your dog could be a shaman's helper too.","rel":"","context":"In \"dogs\"","block_context":{"text":"dogs","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=dogs"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7119"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7129,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119\/revisions\/7129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}