German+Gothic+Horror

German Gothic Horror
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 * Historians believe that on Mary's journey she heard of Johann Konrad Dippel, a german alchemist who experimented with dead bodies and was able to create an artificial monster.
 * The elements of a horror story that make it so scary is the fear of the unknown, the unexpected, the unbelievable, the unseen, the unconscious, and the unstoppable.
 * The emotions that add on to this are helplessness, urgency, pressure, intensity, rhythm, and also release.
 * Mary Shelley's life was surronded by death as her mother died just ten days after giving birth and her dad had drowned as he took a boat out to sea in a storm even though he could not swim.
 * These deaths may be the reason why she wrote a horror story and also why she was so interested in bringing the dead back to life.
 * Super natural beings play a big part in German Gothic Horror.
 * A super natural being can be anything from a banshee to a fairy to a fortune teller.
 * It can also be a power like magic or being able to talk to spirits.
 * It is also something that is not real but people can believe that it is.
 * It can also be good or evil.
 * A banshee is a super natural being in Irish and Celtic Traditions whose screaming or groaning at night was believed to announce the death of a relative/family member of the person who heard this spirit.[[image:http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:fLDSWHjA62E8SM:http://www.legendsofamerica.com/photos-ghosts/banshee.jpg width="90" height="121" align="right" link="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.legendsofamerica.com/photos-ghosts/banshee.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.legendsofamerica.com/SD-BansheeBadlands.html&usg=__pETFeYRqb194iHO7IQZIfpBP9tw=&h=353&w=263&sz=45&hl=en&start=9&um=1&tbnid=fLDSWHjA62E8SM:&tbnh=121&tbnw=90&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbanshee%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1W1RNWN_en%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1"]]
 * Some super natural beings include:
 * Ghosts
 * Wizards
 * Mythological gods
 * Demons
 * Mutants
 * Monsters
 * Zombies
 * Robots
 * Santa Claus
 * The Easter Bunny
 * leprechauns
 * Satan