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The Holy Undead, Part 1

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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What Do You Think About Titmar's Ghost Stories?

Tetmar's ghost stories suggest details about local pagan beliefs that existed before christianity, and then probably continued to exist after a the christianization of a region. The majority of mediaeval people who believed they had direct experience of the a realm did so in intimate confrontation with dead human beings,. rather than through encounter with a transcendent deity. These kind of stories reflect alternative beliefs about neno. They don't reflect that emphasis on the inertness of the human body before the general resurrection, they say.

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