I've been meaning to make this blog post for a week now. I really meant to after class last week because I had already e-mailed Andy about it...but I went and ate at Hokkaido with Jordan instead. And ahem...Andy has yet to e-mail me back...cough.
Ok so I know two things. I love animals and I loved Heart-Shaped Box. So I want to base my paper around that. I was fascinated and intrigued by Jude's dogs and their abilities to defend him from the ghost of Craddock. I also have heard various "tales" about animal and their heightened sense of the supernatural. I did a little preliminary research and found a few studies involving animals and the paranormal, including a BBC documentary mini series on Supernatural: Unseen Abilities of Animals.
So I have these minimal sources and a slight idea of what I want to write about, yet I need to go deeper to figure out how I'm going to form a thesis. I suppose I want to analyze and investigate animals true abilities to sense and fend off the supernatural better than we humans can. Does anybody have any other ideas of where I can find useful sources? I'm finding a lot of blogger discussion boards, but only a handful of solid sources to help me form some sort of conclusion. I really like this topic and think it will make a great paper, I just need to develop it more strongly.
Hope you guys have some ideas to help me, and I hope I can help you.
2 comments:
While it might get a little freaky, some research into animals as familiars in the occult sense might be pretty cool. You could compare that to the more "scientific" approach from things like the BBC documentary.
I've definitely heard of stories about cats and dogs responding to things people can't see. It's a joke in my house, whenever one of our cats just stares, we say he's seeing a ghost. I think Animal Planet has a show about animals and their connections to ghosts and whatnot.
Good luck!
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