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My favorite part about 1931 Dracula is that there are armadillos running around Dracula’s castle.

Look at this it’s like they couldn’t find any rats so they just were like “eh close enough no one will notice”. But I noticed. I noticed.

“WE NAILED IT BOYS”

Apparently in the 20s and 30s, armadillos weren’t very commonly known, so moviemakers would use them wherever they needed some creepy, ‘demonic’ animal running around. So there were a lot of armadillos in early filmmaking, and it was often people’s only source of reference for armadillos.

Fast forward twenty years to when the father of the biology professor who told me this is driving out from the east coast to see his son in California. Crossing the southwest at night.

An armadillo runs across the road. 

He comes to a screeching halt and the Thing Of Evil, which he never knew was actually a real animal, trots the rest of the way across the road and vanishes into the desert.

Apparently it shook him up rather a bit.

@mortalityplays

Ok but what about Dracula’s Bee.

A single, solitary bee with his own tiny custom-built coffin. 

Nobody ever talks about Dracula’s pet bee.

the armadillos I get, but I still don’t understand the solitary bee

why did it have a coffin?

did Dracula just love his pet be that much?

It’s not a bee it’s a Jerusalem Cricket, included for basically the same reason as the armadillo

excellent pre-halloween content

While that is a cool and good clarification, my question stands

Why did Dracula have a single solitary cricket with his own tiny-built coffin.

Because he could.

this is all the same reason they used hyenas for the werewolves/fiendish wolves

because so few people were familliar with them they looked like very weird wolves that made very weird noises