SC - Chicken feet (Translation Challenge)

[rcmann4@earthlink.net]

    The X-files had a hilarious episode that dealt with this - Trailer Trash
vampires all living in an RV park. Mulder is about to be munched upon by a
teenage vampire, so he throws his bag of sunflower seeds all over the floor.
The vampire stops, looks down, and goes "ooh, you're going to get in trouble
for THAT!" as he bends down & starts picking them up & counting them . . .
He was also compulsive about untying shoelaces, which is what tips off
Mulder to begin with.

    Sieggy

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> Still, the most consistently bizarre and amusing intersection of sets of
> vampire behavior between folklore and the (seemingly) most trivial
> fiction imaginable, is the fact that many pieces of Eastern European
> folklore do in fact mention vampires' preoccupation with counting small
> objects. You can keep them out of your house by dumping a bag of rice or
> beans outside the door, and unless they finish counting each grain
> before cockcrow, they can't pass the pile. Of course you _can_ go and
> engage them in conversation, and they'll probably say, "48, 372...
> 48,3-- um... 48,300 and... DANGIT! One... two... three..." Millet is
> good because it's really small and hard to deal with in the dark.
>
> And now the distinct possibility exists that we'll never know if Jim
> Henson based this habit of The Count's (on Sesame Street, etc.) on
> actual folklore, or just on the fact that he was a Count, so he counted.