" Ìt has been said that in these very early times, they could withstand no brilliant illumination, that even a nearby fire would cause their skin to smoke.
"`Whatever, they were of a new order of being, and their thoughts were of a new order of being, and they tried to understand the things that they saw, the dispositions that afflicted them in this new state.
" Àll discoveries are not recorded. There is nothing in writing or in the unwritten tradition about when they first chose to pass on the blood, or ascertained the method by which it must be done --that the victim must be drained to the twilight moment of approaching death, or the demonic blood given him cannot take hold.
"`We do know through the unwritten tradition that the King and Queen tried to keep secret what had happened to
