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Nowadays, in a world of technology, in which parents are busy and children entertain themselves through mass media, social channels or movies, it is amazing the fact that stories, even those written hundreds of years ago, still delight us. They help [...]

Blood is of immense cultural significance. We talk of blood ‘being thicker than water’ to signify the strength of family loyalty, as also reflected in ‘blood brothers’. A massacre is a ‘blood bath’, the reward for assassination ‘blood money’. Blood signifies power, for good or evil; the consumption of blood, metaphorically, lies at the [...]