There was no Mercy for Mercy

What is is people really know how to do? Oh yeah, turn victims into villains. Mercy Brown was one of the many people who passed from TB and were named a vampire because of it. These people's suffering turning into disgust from others. Because these people turned pale with red bloody patches and spread the disease to others, they were named vampires. The purple flowers on the grave are bat flowers.

Mercy most especially because she was buried when the weather was freezing so she did not decompose quickly like her mother and sister did when they passed. She was still intact and her body had moved because the bacteria produced gas and pushed her body. It also released blood to different areas which made people think she was taking it from others instead of realizing it was her own blood leaking. Her organs were harvested and used as a tonic because of this.

A horrid death and regular happenings that her father by the name of Edwin Brown looked to his poor deceased daughter as the one lone surviver and created a story to be the one to play victim. You could maybe say it was the extreme grief eating him up or maybe disgust from seeing his beautiful wife and daughters turn nasty with wanting something to blame. Either way he sure did input lots of effort into the creation of vampire stories.

Vampire lore can be interesting. I have never really enjoyed it overly so myself though because of the connotation behind the tall tales. It takes people who enjoy the dark and turns them into blood suckers, gross. Takes those struggling with diseases and makes them horrid. People complain about the romanticised version of vampires but I think it's great to push them away from the ick factor so they are at least seen as attractive instead of boiled gray skin creatures.

The endless need for blood is ridiculous. Blood bats only drink two tablespoons of blood each night. A human is bigger let's up that to a cup. They don't need endless supplies enough to kill entirely with that, just enough to sustain like a blood donation. The endless hunger part is an extreme exaggeration to cause more scare. If vampires existed they could probably just live fine among humans and buy blood bags at the grocery store.

Mercy was kept in a coffin inside the house because they could not dig through the frozen earth at the time. This is where the sleeping in a coffin until it turns dark comes from. The body seeming to move they would believe she would rise from the coffin at night to go take blood. Edwin would never want to check though, just making assumptions and creating horrific tales about his own daughter is heartless. I guess you could say she left a type of legacy with her death, but definitely against her own will. If she was still alive and everyone accused her of taking their blood, I'm sure it would not be a fun time.

Edwin burning his daughters heart and drinking it to feel replenished or more a vampire act than anything his daughters body ever did. Instead of vampires there should exist an ash tonic man. A man that burns organs harvested from bodies and giving them as if they are "remedies" so that the actual monster can be written about. He ended up still passing away and not gaining the immortality he craved (shocker) full of gross organ ash. There was no Mercy for Mercy, an irony in what he had named his daughter.