However, neither the blood nor the robe could be exposed to sunlight or fire. Heraclesâs wife, Deianeira, blinded by love, sent Heracles a festive robe she had woven she had rubbed the inside with Nemosâs blood, which the dying Nemos had told her would fire her husbandâs passion. Heracles had been brought down accidentally by the poisonous blood of the dead centaur, Nemos. Finally, at his fatherâs command, Philoktetes fulfilled Heraclesâs request, and the latter gave him his legendary bow and arrows in gratitude. But when he was carried to the pyre, none of those there wanted to light the fire, however much he pleaded with them. Heracles, racked by terrible pains, had a funeral pyre of oak and olive branches put up for himself on Mount Oita. Mikhail Bakhtin According to Greek tradition, Philoktetes, son of King Poias, inherited from Heracles the bow and poisonous arrows to which that future god owed numerous victories during his mortal existence. The victory over death is not at all its abstract elimination,it is both its dethronement, its revival and its transformation into joy: âhellâ has exploded and has flowed out into a horn of plenty. Fast paced, sexy, and even though Cat is no Buffy, you can’t help but call Spike to mind when reading descriptions of Bones.Halfway to the Grave Halfway to the Grave This makes her a heroine that can take care of herself.Īn unlikely partnership that quickly pushes our heroine to confront assumptions and prejudices about herself and vampires.
Cat has some super-human strength and speed from her father.
Vampire and half vampire lore includes a few resets on traditional expectations. He’ll train her to better hunt vampires if she goes after the ones that he chooses. Bones takes an opportunity to make a deal with Cat. Until she meets Bones, the master vampire and bounty hunter. Cat does her part by killing as many as she can. Her mother takes out her anger at vampires on Cat, bringing her up to believe that all vampires are evil. Her mom told her when she was a teenager that she was half vampire. The first book in the Night Huntress series introduces us to Cat Crawford, vampire hunter.Ĭat isn’t your ‘chosen one’ kind of vampire slayer.
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