Actually...I think you're a bit mistaken, guys. There is a certain art-style, mostly in buildings, that is called the Gothic style. It's with those little towers, dark and gloomy and with too much detailed frills. It's pretty, but I'm not a fan of it.
Also, being a goth doesn't really mean that you're a witch or something like that. I mean, I'm a witch, and there's not a gothic bone in my body, besides sometimes the depressed moods. Being a goth is more a way of living and dressing, it's the attitude of 'I don't give a damn'.
People who cut themselves usually do this because they want to take the pain of something inside of them, to the outside. Regular people may even do this. I remember once, a girl who was so heartbroken, that she wrote the boys name in her arm with a knife. Has nothing to do with being a goth, just with hurting really bad.
Calling up ghosts is something I've never done, but I know rather a lot about it. It's a dangerous thing if you don't know what you're doing, after all. A lot of gothic people do this, I'll admit, but it hasn't really got anything to do with their gothic-ness.
The ones who drink other peoples blood are rather bizarre, I'll admit that. While they are usually goth, not all gothic people are like that. It's a kind of religion, like Satanism. With them it's just Vampirism. Also, while a lot of the Satanists have a gothic look, it's not all of them.
Wearing black is something that Goths do, they are fond of leather and blood-red things too. Also leather wristbands and necklaces with spikes on them, and they often wear black nailpolish, both men as women.
I think the principle behind them is that they dislike the current world and express that by don't giving a damn anymore. A lot of them go back to previous era's, hence the Victorian-style clothes. I think they're intriguing. A bit too much trouble to express who you are, in my eyes, but definetly nice conversing partners.
02-Mar-2005