These feature surprisingly little in the standard folklore collections of the 19th and 20th centuries. There is nowadays a general tendency to associate bats with witches, the Devil, and vampires, although this stems more from modern horror films than from traditional lore. Nevertheless, Ella M. Leather reported that ‘witches change themselves into the form of animals, usually bats or black cats’ (Leather, 1912: 52). A bat flying against a window or, worse, into a room, is counted as very unlucky or even a death omen. The most common notion about bats, however, is their alleged tendency to get entangled in women's hair, with the extra problem that the hair has to be cut off to extricate the animal.
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| Music | Ian Dorricott |
| Lyrics | Simon Denver |
| Book | Simon Denver Ian Dorricott |
Bats is a musical written in 1983 by two Australians, Ian Dorricott and Simon Denver.[1] It has been produced numerous times by school groups.
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The remote village of Humperdink in the shire of Engelberta in the Transylvanian Alps has survived for centuries by growing grapes, and even though they can boast about Count Dracula's castle, no one really seems to care. The towns "Grape Harvest" is their main industry. But when the grape harvest is ruined by disease, and the town is on the verge of bankruptcy, they need outside money, so decide to market their attraction as a location for creatures of horror.
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