March 2013 – EsoterX

Month: March 2013

5 Posts

Anthropology, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Hungry Ghosts: The Diet of the Dead among the Grigori, Preta, Yidak, Gaki, and Egui

March 20, 2013 — 4 Comments

Anthropology, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Dog Days with the T’ien Kou: China’s Heavenly Hound Eats the Moon (and Your Children)

March 17, 2013 — 1 Comment

Anthropology, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Marching with the Mighty Mermecolion: Inevitable World Domination by Gold-Digging Ants

March 13, 2013 — 0 Comments

Anthropology, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

A Monster and a Gentleman: The Class War Reflected in our Bestiary

March 7, 2013 — 0 Comments

Anthropology, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Japan’s Kasa Obake: Let a Monstrous Smile Be Your Umbrella

March 3, 2013 — 1 Comment

“It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry ‘Monster!’ and looked behind him.”
-Laini Taylor

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
-Oscar Wilde

“Life is Hard. After all, it kills you.”
-Katherine Hepburn

“Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.”
-Theodor Adorno

“All would be well. All would be heavenly–If the damned would only stay damned.”
-Charles Fort

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”
–Jerry Garcia

“You can’t create a monster, then whine when it stomps a few buildings.”
–Yeardley Smith

“Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.”
–Robert Anton Wilson

“The earth, it has been said, is one vast graveyard, and man can nowhere put down his foot without stepping on the remains of a brother.”
–M. Schele de Vere

“Even from the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.”
–H.P. Lovecraft

“If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?”
–Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“The problem with people who say monsters don’t really exist is that they’re almost never saying it to the monsters.”
— Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon

“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean there isn’t an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
–Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.”
–Eric Hoffer, American Social Philosopher

“The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.”
–Günter Grass, German Novelist