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Faith can hurt sometimes (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 6 months ago (29 children)

I liked the Dresden Files approach to this, it is having faith in something that repels vampires, not the things people have faith in. So the main character repels vampires with a pentagram necklace and his faith in magic.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Blindsight/Echopraxia by Peter Watts had a good "science" based version. Vampires are an obligate carnivore/cannibal hominid that went extinct (after giving humans their "uncanny valley" fear btw as a survival trait to detect them) and had a heriditary fear of right angles due to a quirk in their visual cortex.

The idea being "right angles don't occur in nature" and such. The problem with that idea is that they do, but still a decent series with some interesting ideas.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Hold on, Blindsight has a sequel? This could be fun...

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