Biting Back: A No-Nonsense, No-Garlic Guide to Facing the Personal Vampires in Your Life by Claudia Cunningham

Author:Claudia Cunningham [Cunningham, Claudia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion & Spirituality, Self-Help, Personal Transformation, Spiritual, Spirituality, Personal Growth
Amazon: B003VQRH3S
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Published: 2010-09-07T22:00:00+00:00

It's like in the movie Bram Stoker's Dracula. In the beginning, they show us that Dracula wasn't always a vampire. He didn't come out of the womb that way. No indeed.

As the story opens, we see that he was once a young Romanian knight, on his way to war against the Muslim Turks. At first sight, he is a handsome young soldier bidding a passionate farewell to his enchanting wife, Elizabeta whom, our narrator tells us, he prizes above all things. As they say their goodbyes, we are warned that he might never return.

That's war for you.

Next scene: The battlefield, where the director shows us what might be just a bit more than we care to see of Dracula's fairly repulsive victory over the Turks. There's lots of vivid (and perhaps unnecessary) impaling going on in this scene, along with lots of bloodcurdling (and surely necessary) cries of anguish to go along with it.

When the battle ends and Dracula has won, he falls to his knees and thanks God for his victory. Then, sensing the call of beloved Elizabeta, he begins the long journey back home. But ...

The Turks prove themselves to be both sore and clever losers: intent on winning a brutal game of gotcha last, they send a false message to Elizabeta which claims Dracula has died in battle, and, predictably overwhelmed by her grief, she dives from the castle window and to her death in the river below.

Score one for the Turks.

As Dracula enters the castle, he discovers his beautiful young wife lying dead at the foot of an altar. A suicide note lays on her chest, explaining how she-unable to bear her separation from him in this life-has killed herself in order to meet with him in the next. Also on the scene, however, is a small group of clerics, one of whom offers Dracula what is doubtless the most appallingly ill-timed piece of intelligence I've ever heard. He tells Dracula if you can believe it-that there's no way he'll be meeting Elizabeta in heaven, since she has committed suicide and is therefore damned to hell.

Honestly. He couldn't put a hold on that news for just one minute? Poor Dracula is now so enraged that he looks to the heavens, renounces God, promises to rise from his own death to avenge Elizabeta's, and then vows to use all the powers of darkness to do it, too. It's a real mess.

But there's a moral to this story, and here it is:

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