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From: Sharpn <smh@tyler.net>
Subject: Re: [My work]The Virgin Sacrificed to A Lurking Dragon
Date: 1996/07/04
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Marco A. Soto wrote:
> whoever it was wrote:
> >        *grin*
> >        Who ever came up with the stupid idea that we eat
> >        virgins? Sheesh!  }:)
> >
> `*\_/*' `*\_/*'
> ".......um....." Socrates looks over at Sharpn "Nevermind.
> It's an old wivestale like going in swimming after you eat."
> 
> Socrates|setarcoS (why do dragons eat virgins? Wouldn't you?)
> Draco Draconis Purpurae

<raised eyebrow> (Luckily, I don't quite get the innuendo. I've got 
suspicions, but not enough to make a case with. Lucky you.)

I was going to respond to this anyway, but since someone made a 
reference to me...

"Yes, it is an oldwive's tale created by hoomuns. It goes back to the 
barbaric days of greggil religion. Virgins were considered untainted 
sacrifices fit for gods. Virginity was sometimes required to become a 
shaman or priestess or whatever, because they thought it enhanced 
natural magic abilities, that might be dissipated through you-know. Back 
then, some greggils thought their god came as or sent a monster to 
destroy their crops and cattle as punishment and they had to make a 
sacrifice to appease him/her/it. Supposedly, the god accepted the 
sacrifice by the monster eating the virgin as in the myth of Andromeda. 
Add one opportunist dragon and voil�. It's kept alive because many 
female greggils find something appealing about the concept, in fantasy 
if not necessarily in practice.