Evil exists.

Not Hollywood’s evil with its vampires, witches, werewolves, and fantastical warlords, but the kind that draws true horror to our faces and freezes our hearts in fear –abominations so horrible that we can barely take them in.

If evil were merely the stuff of horror films and superstitions, we might go about our day relatively unmussed and unmoved, waving it off as a flight of fancy. But we all know better.

Don’t we?

Yet an old saying reveals that a little kernel of truth always underlies every tale or myth.

Some of these underlying “truths” helped us overcome superstitions of folks we thought were evil.

For example, the myth of the vampire may have come from the knowledge of a strange blood disorder called porphyria, which causes sensitivity to sunlight, receding gums, d…