Amo Husserl
Superstar
I'm saying if you were given the means to ward off a vampire and didn't use it, that's OD counterintuitive 'cause vampires are vulnerable to crosses whether or not the person holding the cross is a Christian. That doesn't mean Christianity is superior to the ancestral ways, it means vampires are are vulnerable to Christian iconography. It also would be negligent to not acknowledge how the ancestral ways were blended with Christianity for us... I know many older Black people who follow a syncretistic system than being straight Christians or Catholics.I feel like themojo bag helped Smoke. The magic popped up when Stack tried to bite him.
Also are you saying that Christianity is superior to the ancestral ways?Because Remmick prayed with Sammy. I don't think Christian Iconography would have worked.
Annie threw pickled garlic water on one of the vampires, not holy water.
She said it was pickled garlic water after. Garlic is used in root work, it's also effective against vampires.
See? Wasn't no strict rules for them to follow, they just didn't make any crosses because the movie was more about hoodoo and African roots.
They was calling Remmick and the other vampires devils, weren't they?
They say if you scared, go to church
But remember, he knows the Bible too
Smoke was conscious, that was symbolized by the mojo bag. Smoke's love interest was the black woman, the root worker.
Smoke got revenge on the klan at the end, the conscious brother got revenge. Stack was assimilated as the undead by his passing love interest.
Nobody pulled out a cross after it was said crosses harm vampires... Preacher Boy didn't even pull one out.
To be real, I think all the people that got turned were sinners like they were more Christian than syncretic and conscious and more vulnerable for one reason or another. I think Preacher Boy was the syncretic one who had Christianity and the ancestral ways in him like Delta Slim. Smoke was.... Smoke was a warrior of the ancestral ways. Issa layered movie.