{"id":266,"date":"2016-03-23T15:28:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T19:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=266"},"modified":"2016-03-23T15:35:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T19:35:04","slug":"the-stalking-fog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2016\/03\/23\/the-stalking-fog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stalking Fog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this blog post, I will discuss and elaborate upon a vampire myth that was not discussed in class: the idea that vampires can become a ghastly fog in order to hunt their prey. In the Bram Stoker novel,\u00a0<em>Dracula,\u00a0<\/em>one of the protagonists, Johnathan Harker noticed &#8220;quaint little specks floating in the rays of the moonlight [that] gathered in clusters in a nebulous sort of way&#8221;(52). In addition to this, the particulate matter in the air seemingly became\u00a0&#8220;three ghostly women&#8230; [who had] \u00a0materialized from the moonbeams&#8221;(53). \u00a0In response, Johnathan &#8220;fled [to his room where he] felt somewhat safer&#8230; where there was no moonlight&#8221;(52). These individuals that Harker witnessed were the three vampiric women that nearly consumed him during the end of chapter 3. These women, through their ghostly\u00a0forms, are able to skulk throughout Dracula&#8217;s castle until it is time to appear. The idea that vampires can assume this form is solidified when the log of the ship, Demeter, is reviewed. Over the course of a month, sailors disappeared because\u00a0<em>something\u00a0<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>was\u00a0killing them. In addition to this, they were unable to navigate the sea due to a fog which &#8220;seemed to move with&#8221; the ship (94). One sailor reported that he saw &#8220;a man, tall&#8230; thin&#8230; [and] \u00a0ghostly pale&#8221;(94). When this sailor stabbed the entity, &#8220;the knife went through it, empty as the air&#8221;(94). This individual&#8217;s physical description matches Count Dracula, who we know is a vampire\u00a0through popular culture and his actions in the novel. In addition to this, the fact that a sailor attempted stab Dracula, but is unable to, demonstrates the intangible properties of a vampire in this form. The idea that a vampire can transform into fog demonstrates their potential predatory tendencies, as they are able to hunt and ambush their human prey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this blog post, I will discuss and elaborate upon a vampire myth that was not discussed in class: the idea that vampires can become a ghastly fog in order to hunt their prey. In the Bram Stoker novel,\u00a0Dracula,\u00a0one of the protagonists, Johnathan Harker noticed &#8220;quaint little specks floating in the rays of the moonlight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2016\/03\/23\/the-stalking-fog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Stalking Fog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}