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Monsters in Our Midst

Monsters in Our Midst. They’re pretty much everywhere…. From around the globe . . . . Indonesia. Central Asia. Australian Amorodo : flies around at night and sucks out your insides. Mexico (ca. 1570). Burma. Sphinx of Giza. Northwestern Native American (frog monster).

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Monsters in Our Midst

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  1. Monsters in Our Midst They’re pretty much everywhere…

  2. From around the globe . . . Indonesia Central Asia

  3. Australian Amorodo: flies around at night and sucks out your insides Mexico (ca. 1570) Burma

  4. Sphinx of Giza Northwestern Native American (frog monster) Coatlicue, Aztec woman with a skirt of snakes and a necklace of hearts torn from her victims

  5. Kalonoro, Africa Humbaba (Sumerian) Oseberg ship burial, Norway

  6. Wendigo, Algonquian mythology From mythology… Paul Rubens, The Head of Medusa (1615)

  7. From the depths of the sea…

  8. Aristotle, Hierarchical scale of the Great Chain of Being (left) extended by religions (right) To philosophy… Polemical allegory of Arminianism as a five-headed monster (1618)

  9. But there’s always a human element… KasparLavater (1704-1801), The evolution of a frog to the Greek God Apollo.

  10. And size matters…

  11. Monster Truck… (Grave Digger)

  12. Monster limo…

  13. The power of advertising…

  14. Popular culture…

  15. …equals popular fear…

  16. Name that monster…

  17. Name that monster…

  18. Name that monster…

  19. Name that monster…

  20. Make the unfamiliar less frightening through familiarity…

  21. Because they’re cool…

  22. And yet still scary in lots of ways…

  23. Iceland Always playing on the unknown…

  24. Norse mythology map Map of Skyrim

  25. In the realm of the believable… Lake Champlain version Argentinian version

  26. But really monsters are the creations of our own fears… We see what we want to see. “Monsters aren’t under the bed—they’re inside of your head”

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