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The ability to smell or taste something that isn’t really there is called Clairgustance. It’s those times when you catch a scent of perfume or the smell of something baking that no one else can smell. Along with it comes the memory of a loved one who has passed. When it happens to you, don’t ignore it. Someone on the other side is trying to connect with you. The smell of flowers that your mother grew, your uncles pipe smoke and his special brand of tobacco, the gingerbread cookies that your grandmother was famous for. You catch a whiff of the scent and along with it the memory of the person who has passed. This is their way of communicating with you. Sometimes you will hear people speaking of clairgustance as the ability to taste and clairscent as the ability to smell. Because these two things work so easily together and typically happen at the same time I use the term clairgustance interchangeably. Clairgustance is an extremely helpful gift to a psychic. Here is an example of how it works. You are having a reading done and one of your grandmothers comes through. There is a 50/50 chance that your grandmother has passed so you aren’t convinced. For some reason she isn’t coming forward with any more of a description. Then the psychic is given the smell of her gingerbread cookies and tells you this. Now you have the validation that your grandmother has come through. You remember all of those times you sat in her kitchen while she baked. And that’s how she wants you to remember her.

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A N S W E R S Upon First Bite (Continued From Pg. 9) While vampires are largely considered fictitious creatures today, that wasn't the case in 18th-century southeastern Europe. Fiction turned to fact for many, leading to hundreds of vampire sightings, senseless executions and grave stakings. Upon digging up corpses, people often mistook the signs of decomposition for life and assumed vampires were real. They didn't realize that corpses naturally swell with gases as they decompose, ooze blood from various cavities and lose fluid in the skin and gums, making the nails and teeth appear longer. The hysteria continued until Empress Maria Theresa of Austria had her personal physician look into the matter and declared laws forbidding the

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opening of graves and desecrating of corpses. Vampires continued to fascinate the public, becoming a dominant figure in the horror genre. In 1819, John Polidori published "The Vampyre," a short story that would serve as the foundation for works to come. The story revolves around the travels of two characters, a young man named Aubrey and a vampire named Lord Ruthven. The vampire brings harm to all he comes into contact with, including Aubrey, who not only loses the object of his affections, but his sanity and his sister, too. The story was an instant hit, motivating others to churn out their own vampire tales. In 1897, Bram Stoker published Dracula. Wildly popular, the book spawned a mass of works focused on vampires, including many of the ones we enjoy today. Vampires are a scream. Halloween just wouldn't be the same without them.

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