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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fiddleback" data-source="post: 6072642" data-attributes="member: 6704070">"Beware the Harvestmen."On any given night, all over the world, unruly children are told this by their parents.  The Harvestmen are said to come in the night and steal organs and body parts from fresh corpses.  They are shadowy figures, never less than three, who appear to be tall and thin.  Their faces, and indeed the rest of their bodies are covered in a grey hood and long cloak and no one has ever seen their faces if they have one.  They may appear in times of battle and wander the fields of the dead, stooping from time to time to scoop out a heart here and a lung there.  If they do not find the organs they seek they will take fingers or toes or even entire limbs if it suits their dark purposes.  They can be seen near sites of disaster going about their business or in plague riddled communities relieving the dead of their now unnecessary viscera. Many write it off as a simple tale told to frighten the young ones into good behavior, but there are those who know the truth behind it.The Harvestmen are never seen to come or go.  They simply appear, sometimes simultaneously in widely separated locations.  They carry no tools, ride no animals and never speak.  They leave no marks on their victims, and make no mistake, victims they are, for the horrible secret that no parent tells their child is that The Harvestmen do not take from the dead, but instead the living.  Wherever human tragedy strikes, The Harvestmen can be found, ending the lives of those who might otherwise, had they been unmolested, survive.  The tissue of the living is their stock in trade. What do they do with it?  Why do they do what they do? Are they living beings or ethereal agents of some sinister force?  Do they know when tragedies are going to occur or do they simply wait and respond when they do?  No one knows, no one has ever found out.The Harvestmen are real, children. And someday, if you are not very careful, they will come for you.</blockquote>

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