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Demons (Omi) can come in different shapes, sizes and species. Depending upon the culture. My take on demon-quelling is below.
Shall an old gray wolf
subdue a woman like me?
I shall be born soon.
The wolf head I will cut off
and nail the pelt to the cross!
–
Jane Kohut-Bartels
Copyrighted, 2016
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November 27, 2016 at 9:38 pm
Wow….what a great tanka this is. I will be staying away from you….hahahaha….beautiful creativity you have Jane.
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November 27, 2016 at 10:36 pm
This ties in with your old manners poem. 🙂
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November 27, 2016 at 11:31 pm
LOL, Brian…a bit of a stretch, but perhaps not too far a one.
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November 27, 2016 at 11:36 pm
Yeah, well hope this puts the fear in wolves….I am half Hungarian. In this culture’s folklore, wolves play heavily in the scaring of peasants and children. In fact there are Grey wolves and Black wolves. I believe the Black wolves are claimed by the Romanians….but the grey ones are just as bad. I remember some stories that my grandmother, totally Hungarian…told me…at least I think they came from her. Wolves were used liberally to scare children quiet and to sleep. Works. I used the same with my young son: Die Nache…where the wolves were coming out of the woods at 6pm. Bedtime. Worked for a while then he got smarter. LOL! Thank you, Helene.
This also functions as my Death Tanka. Or should.
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November 28, 2016 at 1:49 am
How interesting about the wolfs. I can’t image telling scary stories to my kids before bedtime….lol….
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November 28, 2016 at 3:13 am
Excellent use of the technique…
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November 28, 2016 at 6:20 pm
Thank you, Thotpurge. I’ll be over to read later this afternoon.
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November 28, 2016 at 6:21 pm
Old School, Helene. The elders were fiercer than we are about kids. Imagine the issues they laid upon their own children….and that was passed on to us! LOL!
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November 28, 2016 at 6:34 pm
Yes, so right, our way with children today is the opposite.
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November 28, 2016 at 6:39 pm
yep, and they are better for it. I struggled with this for years with my son….I was old school…but we laugh at things now…he’s 29 and has survived my rotten mothering. I’m not so sure I have.
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November 28, 2016 at 9:29 pm
I did survive mine eventually but not without a lot of pain. I had promised myself I would not do this with my own kids and I never did. They are now 53 and 50. So glad I did not do so.
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November 28, 2016 at 9:41 pm
Helene….good for you! You are a better parent for doing so. I don’t think, at my age, I have yet survived.
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November 28, 2016 at 9:47 pm
It is a matter of what and how you were brought up. Most likely not the same experience as I had. Thought mine was not great either.
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November 28, 2016 at 9:53 pm
No..many mothers are on the spectrum…mine was an extreme narcissist. she is still the same at 96.
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November 29, 2016 at 3:35 am
Unfortunate for you Jane. Sorry about that. At least you now have good relationship with your son. How wonderful that must be for you.
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November 29, 2016 at 8:35 am
it took years, Helene. I had to loosen the ties and the abuse I knew and tried to pass on. But either we learn or we don’t.
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November 29, 2016 at 5:00 pm
So sad when parents treat their children like that….children are to be protected and loved. When my parents were alive I avoided seeing them as much as I could. Only after their death was I able to reconcile myself and put it all behind me. Lots of work on oneself.
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November 29, 2016 at 6:50 pm
lost my comment back due to stupid computer issues. Some ‘offenses ‘ are so bad that there should be no forgiveness….or forgetting. My mother is an emotional sadist: she says things just to destroy confidence and to maim. I’ve never seen the likes of her in anyone else and others agree that she is an extreme case. At 96 it must be her innate evil that keeps her cold heart ticking. My husband had a stroke 3 years ago, and no one from that side of the family said a damn thing. They were told, by me, and they just ignored this. The problem is this: when you lay down with narcissists….you get more than fleas. So when she dies….I will think of ‘forgiving’ her…but I think the lessons of her evil are better remembered….
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November 29, 2016 at 10:03 pm
Definitely not lessons you ever or will ever forget. They do serve you well though in not treating others in that way and destroying them too. What a challenge it has been for you and though you hold the pain the hate from it all, from what you have written so far, I know you have moved forward a lot through your life.
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November 29, 2016 at 10:31 pm
I had to, Helene. And that hatred served a purpose. Of course, like most people….I had great hope that she and they would change….but that didn’t happen. The wiring of narcissism is so twisted that they can’t ‘think’ straight nor do they want to. Their world is very little. Life is a process…and doesn’t end until it does. I’ve made tremendous and dangerous mistakes in my life in numerous things, but that is because I trusted inferior people…I didn’t honor myself. And that is what happens to children who are raised by narcissists.
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