Love how Dracula treats catholic artifacts as like, effective against vampires, but specifically in a way that you can tell Bram...
Love how Dracula treats catholic artifacts as like, effective against vampires, but specifically in a way that you can tell Bram Stoker is not Catholic.
Van Helsing’s just throwing around communion wafers willy nilly, but sacrament has to be blessed by a priest, and you’re only supposed to get one per service. Was Van Helsing just pocketing fistfuls? Did he make Jack come with him so they could steal more? Did he get unblessed wafers, and it only worked because he believed it would?
Why does he try to purify Mina by putting one on her forehead? Wouldn’t rosary beads or a regular cross make more sense?
It’s almost like the relation to Catholicism is completely arbitrary, like crosses are just one of those things, like garlic or running water.
Bram Stoker writing Catholicism like Mangakas