Duchess of Downtown Tacoma

  After a very stressful day yesterday I needed a break from reality so I watched the new Cinderella movie on Prime Video. They launched it with Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation so they pretty much had me at hello. It was the perfect elixir for my day. But my brain never really takes a holiday. It was just redirected to a new line of thinking. I started thinking about the longevity of the story of Cinderella and all the remakings. In the story, Cinderella was a commoner who actually came from nobility because her father who passed away was a nobleman. So Cinderella was accustomed to the finer things and would not take no for an answer when it came to going to that ball. You could paint her as spoiled child, or you could paint her as a strong woman who refused to accept her lot in life. In any case, magic intervened to bring her what she wished for. What does this have to do with my blog about my ancestry? Let me explain.  There is a common idea among people with RH negative blood...

  Mercy Brown's story is the legendary inspiration for Bram Stroker, HG Lovecraft and many other authors. It's surmised that she is the mother of the entire vampire genre in fact. Was she a vampire? Probably not. But I'm also related to a lot of extraordinary women with supposed supernatural abilities so that must be taken into consideration.  A quick google search will give you lots of information about what happened to Mercy Brown in New England in 1892. Here is a 6 minute video overview if you don't have time to go down a rabbit hole right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTvYlWJPWtw Vampire legend Mercy Brown is my 13th cousin twice removed. Angela Jossy  → Carl Jossy your father → Inez Isadora Imus his mother → Jiles Herbert Imus her father → Hiram M. Imus his father → Charles Lemuel Imus his father → Lucy Imus his mother → Ann Buck her mother → Abigail Gould her mother → Thomas Disbrow her father → Margaret Walton his mother → Elizabeth Lynne Cromwell her moth...