Why Vampires? Why Now?

Welcome to Vampires for Pagans 3! We’re so glad you could make it! Do check out our other Vampires for Pagans groups on the other networks we’re on. We like vampires. Do you like vampires? You must, or you wouldn’t be reading this. This vampire group is connected to our other vampire groups. This is a general all-inclusive vampire group, as opposed to our other vampire groups, which are for the specific shows they’re named for.

What is it about vampires that so draws us to these blood sucking maniacs? The movie a few years ago called “30 Days of Night” showed them for what they are, alien blood-sucking maniacs. Certainly there is no mystery or romance connected with leeches, wood ticks, or mosquitoes, but we attach a certain mystique to these other devourers of gore; vampires. Is it because of that biblical proverb “the blood is the life”? This group is like a trunk for all the other vampire groups the focus. This group is for all Pagans who love vampires.

“True Blood” is going to be gone for awhile. It’ll probably be back next summer. Let’s review what we learned during this past summer season of “True Blood.” First of all, there was a coven of Witches operating out of the Moon Goddess Emporium with Marnie, a Witch who was also a medium acting as the High Priestess. Now these aren’t your run-of-the-mill bloodless Wiccans. These Witches do shed blood; their own, and if you get in their way, yours too. She did something you’re never supposed to do. She invited something into her. It’s cool to invoke a deity into you, but you evoke different kinds of spirits. Invoke means call into, like a willed possession. Evoke means call out of or call out, like into a triangle outside the circle, or, as we do at Lughnasadh into the loaf of bread that represents the God Lugh. Back to Marnie. She summoned the spirit of a Witch who had been burnt at the stake in 1611 for rooting out the vampires who had insinuated themselves into the church. It was then that the fun began. A spoiler for you: it got really bloody, and several vampires became piles of ashes before the end.

The Vampire Diaries will start on the CW soon. Stephen likes to watch that show, while Tegwedd finds it to be rather jejune. She prefers more adult shows about vampires. It was also on at the same time as another show she prefers to watch, namely the original CSI. It has nothing to do with vampires, but a couple years ago, there was an episode about vampires.

Who has heard about the newest movie in the Twilight series in which Bella gets pregnant by Edward? Is it being shown yet? We had thought that Bella would become a vampire, and in the literature, vampires can neither get pregnant, nor sire children.

Wikipedia is really invaluable when finding out things about such shows as “Kindred:the Embraced. They were going to bring it back, but Mark Frankel, who portrayed Julian Luna, was killed in a mysterious motorcycle accident. From the Wikipedia: The Vampire Diaries is an American teen (see, Tegwedd was right to call it jejune because it is juvenile, being created for teens, even though Stephen doesn’t think it’s jejune) supernatural drama developed by Kevin Williams and Julie Piec, based upon the book series of the same name by L. J. Smith. The CW series began on September 10th, 2009 and finished its 2nd season on May 12th, 2011. It follows the events in the fictional town of Mystic Falls, VA, which is haunted by supernatural beings. It throws a light on the town’s mysterious past involving Elena’s evil doppelganger Katherine, who seeks revenge against the town, Stefan, Damon, and Elena. Its premiere enjoyed the largest audience since CW opened in 2006. It received average reviews, which improved over time. The 3rd season started on September 15th, which we missed. Some character changes were made from the books, but the story lines have run pretty faithfully from the books.

We have a vampire putty named Vampirella. When she walks, she stalks, and has 6 toes on each front paw. She is mostly white with beige points, a beautiful animal. We suspect she has Siamese ancestry. Several years ago there must have been a very active Siamese tom in the neighborhood. Also, her polydactyly status tells us that Little Boy our polydactyl male cat, was very active in the neighborhood before he was fixed. Her eyes are blue, but at night they turn red. Do any of you have your own Vampirella whose blue eyes turn red at night and who stalks instead of walks? Vampire putties of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your pigments! Do any of you have other vampire critters: dogs, lizards, fish, snakes, rabbits or others?

There is a children’s book series published by Scholastic Books called Bunnicula about a vampire bunny. You can get them from your friendly local public library. The Republicans are wrong. The Internet has not rendered the public library obsolete. If anything, there is more need for it now than ever. Support your friendly local library. Our library re-opens on the 26th, this coming Monday after the completion of the major renovation project they started in June.

Do any of you know of any new vampire series coming up in the future? Inquiring minds want to know. Wikipedia, as was mentioned above is great, and if you get the Mind-n-Magick toolbar on your browser, you’ll get the Paganopedia. Tegwedd was very fond of encyclopedias as a girl. She read the World Book Encyclopedia during the summer between 4th grade and 5th grade. She even tried to sell Encyclopedia Britannica door to door after graduating from college. But she isn’t a sociopath, so she can’t sell anything.

Our friend Caitlin ni Manannan has people bringing her wood from when they prune their trees in their yards. And we are shortly going to be making rune Rune and Ogham sets. So if you’re local, bring us your branches. They should be at least the thickness of your thumb.

All you hard-workin’ Pagans should stand solidly with labor and against the Tea Party. As James Hoffa Jr. said, “Recall those sons of bitches! Go to your ballot boxes and vote them out.” The 75,000 Verizon workers are on strike, and we stand with them. Solidarnosc! as the Poles would say. Verizon management, all Republicans, have made 100 unreasonable demands, and refuse to negotiate, but are paying scabs to cross the picket lines, and work for them. All the workers want, is to keep what they have, a small cost of living increase in wages, their health care, and their pensions. Management wants them to pay $100 per month for health care, while they get it free. If you were thinking of getting a Verizon phone and account, don’t, and do tell them why you aren’t, that you are boycotting them. If you have a Verizon account, close it, and go to another carrier, and tell Verizon why. If you want to piss off Stephen, abuse or oppress the workers. Tell Verizon that you refuse to do business with an employer who oppresses its workers.

Soon we may be selling pendants of the lady and the tiger worked in silver. If you reading this are a silversmith please call our toll free number 1-888-611-7982, and we’ll do business. Coming soon--prints of the Lady and the Tiger by Lizet. Rune and Ogham sets worked by Stephen. Tegwedd has started to crochet cellphone holsters of her own design. They are of acrylic yarn, in assorted colors. She is obsessed right now with making holsters for the Pagan Pride Harvest Festival, but she will make you one to order for a reasonable price. She has some right now in assorted colors for just $9.95+S&H. She is working with yarn she has on hand, so a custom one will cost more because she has to obtain the yarn to make yours. It will cost $14.95 + S&H The smallest container for US priority mail is $4.95.

We are offering a new service. For just $19.95, you can have spell-coaching. We will take you through the construction and performance of a spell. It’s very simple. If you want to perform a spell but you don’t think you know what you’re doing, hire us to coach you through it. The fee is payable to our PayPal accounts, to either abbotts_inn@yahoo.com or tezra.reitan@gmail.com .
We will coach you using strong ethics. Tegwedd has a couplet she will teach you which you can add to your spell that will ensure that it is ethical. Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick is over 40 years old, having been founded in 1970 in Berkeley, CA. It went cybernetic almost 9 years ago. Lizet has been helping us put the school on a more commercial footing, and with her inspiration, Tegwedd has started packaging the classes into manageable packets. Ms. Freeman did a 3rd website for us almost a month ago at http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com. From there, by clicking on two of the graphics, you can go to either of the other two sites: http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and http://abbottsinn.com/ . You can also get to our network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ . With her help, we also salvaged some things from his old website, including the mission statement: The Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick aims to provide a gentle nurturing environment that promotes education in both the atmosphere and the specific tools of magick. Our research arm is called the Magickal Research Institute or MRI, not to be confused with the medical MRI, or Magnetic Resonance Image, which Tegwedd had on her right ankle about 10 months ago. Stephen and Lizet came up with the name almost 9 years ago. The three of us have become a very effective working team. Stephen has his cell phone, and we are both enjoying learning how to use our cell phones. His cell phone number is 916-467-6393. He’ll have access to the Internet on that phone. He says “I’m not very good at texting because of my glaucoma, so please be gentle with me.” Don’t forget to call 888-611-7982 for all your divination, learning class, and research needs.