A Taste for Evil submitted by Stewart.

Where would you find an evil spirit?

In a graveyard, perhaps.

We tend to intrinsically fear the unknown specter of death and load it up with our most mind-chilling fantasies.

Yet the average suburban graveyard is full of ordinary people.

We lived ordinary lives and were mostly generally good people.

Sure everyone is their shit and lifetime share of unresolved issues.

However, a restless spirit who was trapped in their guilt over a romantic affair they had in their

20s is quite a long way from being genuinely evil.

Pissed off, possibly.

Distraak, for sure.

But evil along the line of I want to suck out your soul evil, not a chance. So where

would you go? A place of genuine human suffering where there is a concentration of malevolence?

Bingo.

I'm sure you would at once be able to compile a list,

high security prisons, asylums, war zones, etc.

For sure.

Have you ever wondered why this might be so?

Is it a case of like being drawn to like?

Perhaps evil spirits simply like to bask in the atmosphere where they feel most at home, or perhaps the toxic emotions and thoughts

that we humans project in these horrid places are particularly appealing.

It could be that evil spirits gather around suffering and malice to feed.

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