Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williams
“Among the many legends about vampires is the belief that one cannot enter a home unless invited. ‘He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come,’ Bram Stoker tells us in Dracula. The same legend has been associated with sundry demons (Mephistopheles in Faust requires an invitation to enter: ‘Thrice must the words be spoken’), ghosts, evil spirits, even the devil himself. … Today being January 6, it is worth thinking a little bit about whom we — 77 million of us — have invited in.” (01/06/25)