Category: OCD Vampire
What Inspired A Stalker & Blocker? The Dark Side of Hockey & Obsession
Hockey is the fastest, hardest, most brutal team sport in the world. It’s a war on skates, played at speeds of 30 mph, with collisions that rival car crashes.
It’s gloves dropped at center ice, fists flying, blood splattering onto the ice like a crime scene. It’s a place where men become legends, where enforcers die young, and where goaltenders stand alone in a battlefield of flying rubber and shattered bones.
And beneath the surface?
There’s a darker side of hockey. One the league doesn’t like to talk about.
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Top 10 Goth Gift Stores to Explore This Holiday Season
Discover the best goth gift stores to find unique presents this holiday season. From gothic jewelry to dark art, explore curated shops perfect for your spooky holiday list.
Shopping for your black-hearted darling can be challenging if you’re unfamiliar with the alternative lifestyle. So, looking for the perfect gift? These goth gift stores offer a range of dark and unique items for the holidays. Let’s take a look!
Note: “They” is used to facilitate the reading as GBM didn’t want to assume the pronouns of any shop owner.
Dracula Clothing
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Located in Zatec, Czechia, in Europe, Dracula Clothing offers a wide range of unique gothic gifts. The owner wished to create an alternative clothing fashion line for people like them to enjoy. At first, they thought perhaps it’d only be for friends and family members, but they ended up selling worldwide.
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Young Blood Transfusion Have Anemic Result
There are many conspiracy theories out there concerning various topics. But one in particular caught my attention. Did vampires have it right? Was Elizabeth Báthory on to something with her young virgin baths? Young plasma transfusion can keep you young?
What Is Young Plasma Transfusion?
One night, I was watching my usual reaction YouTuber, and a clip from a channel talking about conspiracy theories mentioned rejuvenation. The video stated that their father used his grandson’s plasma to help restore his memory capability, but as a side effect, he started de-aging.
Another clip made the same claims, saying the person had de-aged twenty-five years. Are we talking about the neurological network, the organs, the internal clock, or appearance? I don’t know. However, whatever the consequences of the transfusion were, those claims are that the overall process causes the patient to grow younger.
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Algolagnia And The Sexual Sadism Paraphilic Disorder Is More Than Just A Fantasy
Paraphilias are often tossed aside with judgmental looks and have people cringe if they do not look disgusted. However, how much do you know about paraphilias and sexual sadism disorder?
The Overall View Of Sexual Sadism Disorder
Sexual sadism is one of many paraphilias in the darker and obscure spectrum of the field. It can create distress in the one living with the paraphilia or the partner. It often interferes with one’s daily life and routine. Sexual sadism can sadly lead to non-consensual harm or pain.
The disorder causes the person living with it to feel arousal through the media of intense involuntary pain. However, it isn’t them who are going through the suffering; it is someone else. It has to be through physical abuse, suffering or humiliation. In other words, they achieve orgasm through the suffering of others.
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Therapeutic Phlebotomy Or Bloodletting Has A Medieval History
Many people are fascinated with medieval medical procedures and want to know how people survived them. So, let’s explore the history of bloodletting.
The Overall Humourism Meaning Of Bloodletting
Bloodletting, or by its otherwise name, therapeutic phlebotomy, consists of the withdrawal of blood from a human body or patient. Back then, people believed that it would cure and prevent diseases. The classical way to eject blood from the body was either accomplished by the physician of the time or leeches.
But what do I mean by humourism? Well, in Ancient Greece and Rome, philosophers and physicians adopted what they would call “humourism” as a system of medicine to describe the workings of the human body. Is your head spinning around like Regan in The Exorcist yet?
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The History Of Impalement: A Method Of Torture From Ancient To Reformation Times
When we think about impalement, we don’t necessarily associate it with bodies, or do we? Because of Vlad the Impaler, we know that at least one person used it obsessively, but what if I told you it is much older than Vlad?
How Old Is The Practice Of Impalement?
The history of impalement is torturous. It is an excruciating and irreversible method of execution. The classical practice consists of the penetration of a human body through a bottom orifice by an inanimate object such as a stake, pole, spear, or hook. The completion of the torture follows with the perforation at the other end of the object through the torso.
Impalement was often the sentence for crimes against the ‘state’ throughout numerous civilizations. It was a capital punishment reserved for horrid crimes of the time or era. However, death through impalement, due to its horrifying scenery, was also employed to implement fear and suppress the desire for rebellion against a leader.
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Do You Have Paraphilias, And Don’t Know It?
The word paraphilia has quite a history in itself. A lot of people associate it with dark and murderous sexual behaviours. However, paraphilias are much more complex than that. Let’s dive into the complexity of the word!
The Overall Generalization Of Paraphilias
People automatically associate paraphilias with sexual depravity, often leading to criminal acts. However, that isn’t the case, and more precisely, one is not exclusive to the other. We owe this misconception to centuries of shaming sexuality, religion, and close-minded doctors and pharmacists.
We are aware that medical procedures have to start somewhere and that it is understandable mistakes would occur. Like many other fields, medicine depends on learning and experimenting. However, some of the worst horror stories of learning come from psychiatry.
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The Psychological Profile Behind A Narcopathic Individual
We know about narcissists, and we know about psychopaths. But what happens when both meet and merge together? We have one of the most terrifying psychological possibilities. It becomes a basic recipe for a supervillain!
What Is The Definition Of A Narcopathic Person?
To be a narcopathic person isn’t simple and doesn’t come quickly, either. In today’s age and era, it is simple to jump online and look at someone’s definition of a word and say, “Yes, I have that, too!” However, people should understand that psychology is a complex, lengthy, and severe field of study.
When going on a medical website to help ourselves find some answers to questions tormenting our minds, we must remember that they are broad terms. It is helpful to bring ideas to your doctor or therapist and ask about what you found and if they should consider examining you for it, even psychological findings. But don’t believe because you watch Dr. Phil that you are a certified psychiatrist!
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GBM Interviews Author David Wilson
At Gothic Bite Magazine we love welcoming new patients to become part of our asylum. We question them and learn about them. It doesn’t matter what creative field they are part of because they’re our patient now. This week, we welcome David Wilson.
Patient Name: David Wilson
Thank you for this opportunity! My name is David Wilson, and I was born in Bangor, Maine, a city known for a much more famous horror genre author. I’ve lived in Maine my entire life.
As a kid, I was hooked on horror movies, especially the classics and anything specifically from George Romero, Sam Raimi, or Lucio Fulci. I also enjoyed the old stuff starring such greats as Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, and Boris Karloff. I was also an avid collector of comics, including the scary stuff.
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Are The Masochism and Sadomasochism Paraphilia Disorders?
What is it about pain that arouses you the most, giving it or receiving it? Masochism is a word we often read but use in sarcastic situations. We also associate them with BDSM, but are we wrong?
But First: What is A Paraphilia
While the word ‘paraphilia’ is often linked to darker tones of sexuality, there is more to it than meets the eye. In reality, the etymology of the word ‘paraphilia’ comes from ancient Greek, meaning ‘para-beside’ and ‘philia-friendship or love.’ We’re far from the standard kinky sexual fantasies definition we associate with it!
Paraphilia is a term that goes back to the very beginning of 1900. It first described people with atypical social behaviour encompassing sexual interests. Keep in mind that those who judged a person’s normality were those who followed what society dictated as ‘normal.’ We’re talking plain sexual positions, nothing in terms of interactions, in a bedroom at night type of setting. Anything to put people in boxes.
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Did You Know That Vlad The Impaler, Cried Tears Of Blood?
Many things are said about the Prince of Wallachia, known as Vlad the Impaler. He was the guy who impaled people. He is the vampire Count Dracula. But have you heard of him crying blood tears?
What Do We Know About Vlad The Impaler?
Vlad the Impaler lived in the 1400s or close to the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance era. Romania was separated into three principalities: Wallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia. He was the middle child of a family of three sons. His mother was a noblewoman, while his father was Vlad Dracul II, Prince of Wallachia.
Vlad Dracula was a Christian-Orthodox, as was Wallachia, placed between the Roman Catholic Empire and the Islamic Ottoman Empire. Due to political and religious conflict, Wallachia was a vassal state rather than a country in its own right. When Vlad Dracula took over the throne, he put Wallachia on the map and grew its legend.
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Vlad Dragwlya by Timothy E. Rodrigue: A Review And Overall Thoughts
As an obsessive fan of Vlad Dracula, I find myself often buying books about his life, whether it is historical fiction or purely history. So, here’s my review of the book Vlad Dragwlya by Timothy E. Rodrigue.
Official Summary of Vlad Dragwlya
Here begins a very cruel frightening story about a wild bloodthirsty man Prince Dragwlya… The war-torn principality of Wallachia is a perilous fulcrum, one of the few geographical boundaries that hinders the Ottoman Empire’s march across Europe.
There are those who would gladly bow to the demands of the Turkish if it meant the procurement of their lands and wealth. There are others who would defy the sultans with every last breath. Prince Vlad III, Dragwlya, is of the latter ilk. Eastern Europe is decidedly Machiavellian, and Dragwlya is the epitome of the doctrine.
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Before Vlad The Impaler There Was His Brother Mircea II
As a medievalist enthusiast and a Vlad the Impaler fan, I learn daily about his life. One brother of his with a horror story is Mircea II of Wallachia.
Why Is Mircea Important To Vlad’s Story
When I hurt my back last week, I was glued to the bed with limited motion. I couldn’t do much, so I decided it was time to read. I was an avid reader from when I learned to read to my twenties. I can’t recall why I stopped.
I discovered Vlad when I was a tween but only started learning about his life as a teenager. My love for the paranormal and folklore won over me, and I wanted to know who the man behind Dracula from Bram Stoker was.
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Vlad, The Last Confession Is A Historical Fiction Retelling Of A Hero
There are many novels out there, but there is so little time. When I hurt my back and found myself glued to my bed, here is what I read, Vlad, The Last Confession, by C.C. Humphreys and here is my review.
Vlad, The Last Confession – The Official Summary
A superb gothic novel about the real Dracula, Vlad the Impaler – one of history’s greatest psychopaths or a hero of the West? Perhaps both…
‘A chilling masterpiece that weaves fact and fable. Bedtime reading? Only if you don’t need much sleep…’
BEST DRACULA. A name of horror, depravity and the darkest sensuality.
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The Strange And Magickal Origin Of Fays
When thinking about fairies, we often lean toward the little, tiny female entities with charming laughs and small dragonfly types of wings. But what is a fairy, really?
What does Fay Mean And Where Does It Come From?
The word fay saw the light of day in the early Dark Ages. Its spelling varies from fae, fay, fey, and fairy, which all mean the same. We can also see lesser-known variations such as faerie, fairie, fayrye, and feirie.
However, the spelling faerie, adopted in Middle English, later became the word fairy. The word means “enchanted” or anything related to charm. The word itself, borrowed from Old French faerie, came from the same meaning, “realm of the fays.”
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What Is The History Of Cartomancy, And Is Tarot French?
There are many reasons why someone could get enthusiastic about fortune-telling, but what if the reader is the one who finds an obsession with the process? This little OCD Vampire is intrigued by cartomancy and what it means!
What Is Cartomancy And What Does It Really Do?
Cartomancy refers to the divination method of fortune-telling. When the deck of cards started appearing in Europe in the fourteenth century, the practice of cartomancy appeared as it required a deck of cards to proceed. This type of divination is called cartomancers, card readers or readers.
When cartomancy started, the reading would occur with a deck of regular cards called a French-suited playing card deck. It was the most popular way of reading through cards from the Victorian era to the Belle Époque.
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The Secret Knowledge Of The Age Of Druidism
In the writing world, we often use folklore and legends. But Druids are not part of the usual characters in novels. Their secrecy might be to blame.
Why Did I Fall Into The Rabbit Hole Of Druidism
Upon research as a medievalist enthusiast, looking for various types of witches, the word Druid popped into my head. Many associate druids with fantasy or games such as Magic The Gathering or Dungeons & Dragons. But there is much more to them.
Druids are not as known as other Celtic folkloric people, such as Leprechauns, Faeries, Elves, and Trolls, to only name a few. The influence of the Celtic culture in fantasy literature is significant and provides solid roots. But druids are different.
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GBM Interviews Author Jason O’Hara
At Gothic Bite Magazine we love welcoming new patients to become part of our asylum. We question them and learn about them. It doesn’t matter what creative field they are part of because they’re our patient now. This week, we welcome Jason O’Hara
Patient Name: Jason O’Hara
My name is Jason O’Hara. I write under the name Jaysen True Blood. I have been writing for over thirty years – closer to forty, if you count the first story I wrote for a third-grade class project.
I write every genre possible, but I have an affinity for paranormal and horror. I work a day job but spend my days off writing. My adventure began with publishing my first book, The Price Of Lust, in 2007.
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Witchphobia Is Happening, Leading To Dangerous Hatred Toward Witches
The hate for witches goes back millennia and is still present in our time now, worse than it has been in centuries. Why are people so afraid of witches? Read to find out!
Is It The Fear Of The Unknown Or Something Else?
While I would like to believe it is only the fear of the unknown that drives people to hate witches, it’s more complicated than that. People who hate witches often are also religious.
It’s part of those people’s education growing up to fear and hate witches. Some religious people find witches silly because they don’t know what it is to be a witch. However, others believe they know what a witch is and hate us for it.
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