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Mysticism
The mystique of Savannah comes from the allure of its ambience. It's one of the most haunted cities in the United States, and one doesn't have to look far to find followers of Voodoo or practitioners of Hoodoo (yes, there's a difference). There's a heavy spiritualism in the city: from the strictly Catholic to the spiritual folk healers to the fae sorcerers. Nothing is usually what it seems, but it's never stopped anyone from looking.
Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodoo_(folk_magic)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Voodoo
http://www.ghosteyes.com/savannah-ga
The Skeleton Key (Film)
Eccentricity
Most visitors to Savannah have always praised the city for its eclectic blend of personalities. On the streets, there are street artists and tinkerers and hoodoo queens. In high society, there are men who walk dogs that aren't there and drag queens with a penchant for cotillions and other social oddities. The key point of eccentricity, however, is that it tends towards excess, not silliness. It's surreal, not hokey.
Resources:
Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil (Book, Film)
Bright Young Things (Film), Vile Bodies (Book)
Capote (Film)
Decorum
Southern Manners are one of the most vital parts of the south. Serious affronts come from someone not knowing 'how to treat a lady', and no one can insult a host so gravely as eating wrong. Manners and propriety make up a good deal of the structure of society that southern fae use as their jungle gym: they weave and tumble throughout all of it, but never actually break it.
Resources:
http://www.knowsouthernhistory.net/Culture/Manners/table_of_contents.htm
http://www.southern-style.com/manners_and_etiquette.htm
Gone With The Wind (book, film)
Southern Gothic
The poignancy of Southern Gothic is its realism and its subtletly. The style is characterized by its use of the Grotesque, a creature you can empathize with, but remain in some fashion repulsed by. Nothing is perfect, but nothing is wholly flawed, and the balance of these two in the bleak personal horror of Southern Gothic is archetypal to the foundation of the Changeling setting. Past the character, Southern Gothic appears in the mystery of what went unsaid, rather than what was overheard, or what you didn't see, as opposed to what you did. Suggestions. Nuances. Horror veiled in nicety.
Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Gothic
Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil (Book, Film)
The Skeleton Key (Film)
Edited 5:06am, March 26, 2011 by Storyteller, author. |
