Timeline for What is the origin of Stoker's idea that vampires' reflections cannot be seen?
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| Jul 20, 2016 at 18:29 | comment | added | user68762 | According to our jewish traditions we cover mirrors when there is a corpse in the house (and seven days afterwards) one explanation is that the veil between the world of the dead and the living becomes thinner and strange things can be seen in a mirror which somehow represents a window to the other side. there is some funny business with mirrors, demons and death so vampire folklore probably got influenced by that. | |
| Jul 20, 2016 at 5:09 | answer | added | Durakken | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 19, 2016 at 14:32 | comment | added | Paul | Because real vampires don't have reflections. At least not those of the Black Court. Mr Stoker was just good at research. #DresdenFiles | |
| Jul 19, 2016 at 12:50 | comment | added | Gorchestopher H | This is a late addition... but the "origin" of vampires having no reflection is from the Chinese Jiangshi myths. Jiangshi (the original non-werewolf vampires) are horrified of their own reflections. Mr Stoker can't comment at the moment, but this is likely the inspiration for them to have no reflections. They are said to fear their reflection because it causes them to they realize they are dead. | |
| Jul 19, 2016 at 12:31 | answer | added | Hristo Valkanov | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 19, 2016 at 9:34 | comment | added | b_jonas | This is a duplicate of mythology.stackexchange.com/q/1023/197 "Origin of the 'vampire's have no reflection' myth" | |
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| Jul 11, 2016 at 8:11 | history | edited | Adamant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 11, 2016 at 6:05 | history | edited | Major Stackings | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 11, 2016 at 5:30 | history | edited | Major Stackings | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 10, 2016 at 20:51 | comment | added | Bellerophon | Not totally relevant but I believe there was a question on worldbuilding.se on how having no reflection could be achieved. worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/7117/… | |
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| Mar 5, 2016 at 20:50 | history | edited | Rand al'Thor♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Brahms wrote music, not horror stories :-P
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| Mar 5, 2016 at 20:49 | answer | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | timeline score: 5 | |
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| Jul 30, 2013 at 20:51 | comment | added | Ron Smith | Actually, many of Anne Rice's vampires are quite fond of looking at themselves in mirrors. That is a false myth about vampires in her canon. tinyurl.com/ky7a9dc | |
| Jul 29, 2013 at 17:49 | vote | accept | Major Stackings | ||
| Jul 24, 2013 at 0:48 | comment | added | jhocking | So that gothic horror writers can do scenes of a vampire approaching an unsuspecting woman brushing her hair... oh you mean an in-universe explanation | |
| Jul 23, 2013 at 22:47 | comment | added | user11683 | No comment about the mind not being able to fill in a consistent image while under the influence of a perception filter? (based on Dr. Who's The Vampires of Venice) :-) | |
| Jul 23, 2013 at 21:08 | comment | added | n611x007 | because they are made of darkness, not light. | |
| Jul 23, 2013 at 18:14 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/359738332399415296 | ||
| Jul 23, 2013 at 17:31 | answer | added | sierralfuller | timeline score: 45 | |
| Jul 23, 2013 at 17:29 | comment | added | SeanC | This is the best I could find: writervsworld.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/… | |
| Jul 23, 2013 at 17:29 | comment | added | Major Stackings | @KHW Edited after reading your comment. | |
| Jul 23, 2013 at 17:28 | history | edited | Major Stackings | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2013 at 17:24 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | Because its magic. There is no "canon" to folk tales. They vary from place to place and from time to time. | |
| Jul 23, 2013 at 17:23 | comment | added | K-H-W | No canon backup (even having not defined WHAT canon we're looking for here), but I remember, at least in older stories, that it was a side effect of them being having no souls; in older stories, those without them (or who had sold them) didn't show reflections. But we're talking folk-stories I read as a kid, so digging up details will be.. hard. | |
| Jul 23, 2013 at 17:14 | history | asked | Major Stackings | CC BY-SA 3.0 |