![]() ![]() Other patterns might include a relationship among all of the people affected. Strange weather patterns and localized crop failures? That one’s probably a demon-more later on that. Mass disappearances near a certain location? Angry spirit, details TK. Series of drownings, year after year, near the summer solstice? We’ll put our money on a nix. Killings on the full moon? Fits the MO of a werewolf-although it’s not always that simple. Know thine enemy, it says somewhere our dad drilled that into us, too. Hard to waste a spirit when you don’t know what’s motivating it. They take out their frustrations for a while and then lie low, which makes it harder sometimes to figure out what’s got them so riled up. Some angry spirits work along the same pattern. Shtrigas are like that, and rakshasas, and some kinds of demons. If there’s a string of unexplained deaths in a particular place, has it happened before? Some supernatural bad guys appear for a few years, or a few days, and We’ve learned to distinguish the supernatural from the merely bizarre. Often enough, though, there are things that can’t be explained by science, or even by the various weird extremes of human behavior. It’s a rough old world out there, even without the demons and black magic and unquiet spirits. Back in medieval Europe, people were a little more likely to jump to supernatural conclusions now, we find all the time that a series of accidents that might look like a haunting or curse isn’t anything of the kind. So how do you tell the difference between a haunt and a plain old run of bad luck? That’s one of the questions that’s plagued hunters from the beginning. Sometimes all you have to go on is your gut instinct, and sometimes you make decisions that get people killed. Number one on the hunter’s list of priorities is wasting evil, but number 1A is making sure that what you’re about to waste really is evil. You look into the abyss, Nietzsche said, and the abyss looks back. And some of them have let hunting turn them into the kind of monster they spend their lives trying to snuff. And some of them have helped us along the way, like Jo and Ellen Harvelle. Some of them taught our dad the ropes: Daniel Elkins, Bobby Singer-good people. People who have dedicated their lives to keeping you safe from things you didn’t know existed and wouldn’t want to believe in if you did. You might not see them, or recognize their work, but there are other hunters out there. We’re out to get that Yellow-Eyed Son of a Bitch, and we’re taking down every evil thing we run across along the way. Cut a deal with the same demonic bastard that killed our mother and killed Jessica. Then, last year, the family business was cut back down to two. The murder of his girlfriend Jessica-in exactly the way our mother was murdered-put an end to that dream, and he rejoined the firm of Winchester and Sons. Neither one of us has ever held an honest job, except for Sam briefly while he was off deluding himself that he could lead a normal life. You might say we’ve both grown up in the family business. Sam was six months old when a demon killed our mother. We’ve been in this line of work all our lives. In a nutshell? We track down monsters, and then we blow the suckers away. Dispatchers of spirits, scourges of the undead and unnatural, feared by demons and shapeshifters andīoogeymen of all shapes and sizes. ![]() newish winchester sayingĪm and Dean Winchester, at your service. old irish sayingĪnd when the good Lord won’t, we will. Preface From ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties, good Lord, preserve us. ![]() SELKIES, SWAN MAIDENS, KITSUNE LYCANTHROPYĪppendix A: Herbs, Oils, and Hoodoo HandsĪppendix B: Names and Attributes of European DemonsĪbout the Author Other Books by Alex Irvine Credits Cover Copyright About the Publisher ![]() ALEX IRVINE Illustrations by Dan Panosian Supernatural created by Eric Kripke ![]()
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