"Einen schönen hals hat Eure Frau..... Ich kaufe das haus, das schöne,öde haus dem Euren gegenüber...."

Sindemasen keine andere
Rettung fürhanden,
es sey denn daß ein
gar sündlos Weyb dem
Vampyre den ersten
Schrey des Hahnen
vergessen mache.
Sie gäbe ihm sonder Zwange ihr Blut.

Only a woman can
break his frightful spell -
a woman pure in heart -
who will offer her blood
freely to Nosferatu and
will keep the vampire by
her side until after the
cock has crowed.

Poster hanging on the church.

Saturday my boyfriend and I went to see Nosfaratu in the church in town. This movie dates 1922 so it is a silent movie with super cute effects. The carriage that brings Hütter (Harker) to the castle is supposed to move fast, and indeed, the recordings are just played faster there. The movie has no sound, so in the church there was live organ music composed for the movie.

The movie is the original Bram Stoker story of Dracula, but in German. Mina is called Ellen, Jonathan Harker is herr Hütter. There are frames of texts of important thing people say, of a book about vampires (how convenient!) and of newspaper articles about about the plague.

Newspaper about the Plague epidemic in Transylvania and the Carpathians. All the victims have small wounds in their neck, but doctors are puzzled what it has to do with the Black Death.

It was my first time in that church and I was surprised by the floor covered in tomb stones. They were dating back to the 16th and 17th century. Some of them were really pretty and heavily decorated, but all of them were eroded due to all the footsteps on them throughout the centuries.

Tomb stones in de Aa-kerk (Aa-church) in Groningen.

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Something very different.

Last week me brother was here and we went buying this lovely cutie table to put in the hall. I think it totally matches awesomely with the medicine boxes that I bought recently. The frames are new too, to match the table. I am still trying which frames look best on it, since I also have others. Right now I also have a pink baroque-ish frame with a picture of my bunny there, together with one white frame.

New table in the hall of my house. Second hand.

In the white frame there is a label of a bottle of wine we drank at the house warming party a week ago. The label says "blood wine" and it has a sexy, scary looking nurse on it that is offering you some ambiguous red drink in a wine glass. There are two glasses, so supposedly she will also drink with you?

Blood Wine. A label from a bottle we drank recently. it says "lovely wine with herb extract".