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A Question About Naagloshii
Mira:
--- Quote from: Lazarus52980 on June 03, 2019, 06:29:35 PM ---I think if you re-read what he wrote you'll likely conclude that he meant the woman falls in love with the Naagloshii, not the other way around. :)
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Exactly...
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It does require a modicum of freedom, for the woman; and a certain degree of availability, from those with the knowledge and/or skills... Those aren't ALWAYS available. It's not like just because it was known" to the Grecian Hetarae 2500 years ago, it was equally available to peasants 1000 years ago... Sometimes those "old wives tales" work, and sometimes they don't.
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But women have always found a way not to carry a child to term if they don't want it.. Often with tragic results for both the woman and the child... Just because a woman was a peasant doesn't mean she didn't have access to poisonous plants and herbs, or just have"accidents" the local "wise woman" or witch, medicine woman would know ways..
exartiem:
I read it perfectly fine the first time. My point, which was apparently missed, was that you could fall in love with a grizzly bear; but if you try to give that grizzly a kiss you're going to get eaten.
The only way she could fall in love with a naagloshii is if it tricked her into it.
And my comment about rape was not about methodology. My hypothesis was that she would not, regardless if it were possible. Otherwise the whole theory falls apart.
Mira:
--- Quote from: exartiem on June 03, 2019, 11:34:43 PM ---I read it perfectly fine the first time. My point, which was apparently missed, was that you could fall in love with a grizzly bear; but if you try to give that grizzly a kiss you're going to get eaten.
The only way she could fall in love with a naagloshii is if it tricked her into it.
And my comment about rape was not about methodology. My hypothesis was that she would not, regardless if it were possible. Otherwise the whole theory falls apart.
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If it kept to it's human form she wouldn't have a clue that she was making love to a grizzly.. If it stayed in human form, she wouldn't know until the kid was born with a rude awakening.
exartiem:
I severely doubt the a skinwalker (who is supposed to be evil) would be interested in having a human love it. Given what Jim has told us about them, I think it more likely that it would rape a nun and torture her for nine months rather than have a woman believe that she (nun or not) was in love for nine months.
It would prefer cause her (if she were a nun) to question her faith, her religion, forcing her to commit (what the catholic church considers) a mortal sin of either abortion or suicide.
Mira:
--- Quote ---I severely doubt the a skinwalker (who is supposed to be evil) would be interested in having a human love it. Given what Jim has told us about them, I think it more likely that it would rape a nun and torture her for nine months rather than have a woman believe that she (nun or not) was in love for nine months.
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A skinwalker is clever, sadistic and is very capable of taking human form and seducing a woman if the incentive was good enough to do it... Love is irrational, especially a mother's love.. So it would reveal itself after the child was born, then continue to get at the mother through her child...
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