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along with doing other superstitious actions. What Harker doesn't realize is that it was the eve of Saint George's Day, a night when "all the evil things in the world will have full sway"[12]. So, one of the women concerned for his safety gives him a rosary to protect him on his journey. A superstition of most is that a rosary will protect you from all evil, and in this novel the evil party is and his followers. This rosary protects him when Jonathan cuts himself shaving the next day and lunges for his throat, but stops when he sees the crucifix around Jonathan's neck. That night both and Jonathan observe a group of wolves howling off in the distance, and says, "listen to them-the children of the night. What music they make"[29]. This remark starts to make the reader like about 's immortality, which is only supposed to be a strength of God. Jonathan Harker was left with an uncomfortable tingle throughout his body, and before he goes to bed he records in his journal, ...

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