Re[2]: [tied] Re: Vampire, i Dorogaya

At 3:53:10 AM on Sunday, September 7, 2003, Andy Howey
wrote:

> I would have to question how Slavic "drag"/"dorog"
> (dear/expensive) could come to be equated with any
> semblance of (devil). It seems rather far-fetched to me,
> especially considering how extreme Dark Age "christians"
> <<lower case intentional>> were; ie. the Inquisitions.

Most historians writing in English eschew the term 'Dark
Age' these days on account of its misleading pejorative
connotations. The one common exception is historians
specializing in sub-Roman Britain, who do seem still to
write of 'Dark Age Britain'. In any case, the worst
manifestations of the Inquisition(s) were not only
post-Dark-Ages (in the traditional sense of the term) but
even post-medieval.

> It seems to me that anyone who would make any sort of such
> demonic equations would be putting his/her life on the
> line. Perhaps the Orthodox Church didn't honor the Roman
> Catholic call to expose and punish (burn) so-called
> heretics (I don't know -- did they or did they not?), but
> making such an equation would still have been extremely
> perilous.

Even in the Western Church the actual burning of heretics
was by and large a late and rare practice.

Brian