Vampires are the world's teenager's fave legends. So I'm doing another post about them.
Vampires are creatures of folklore, fiction and mythology. Vampires will feed off the life force of humans or animals. I most cases they are undead corpses, who live off the blood of other beings to stay alive. The Vampire has to feed on the blood of other living things to keep on living, if it doesn't it will perish. Vampires need blood. The blood flows through their undead bodies, usually as their own. Their bodies will absorb this blood into energy, so then they need to get more.
Vampires can take the form of a bat, and a normal human. Their only weaknesses are garlic and the sun. Vampires loose their supernatural powers temporarily when making contact with the sun directly. It is said that the stench of garlic will make the vampire give out an ear-splitting scream like sound. In most legends vampires can't survive the stab of wood. Vampires are said to never age, hereby always staying youthful and powerful.
Vampires have supernatural powers, and they are said to be beautiful in human form.
Vampirism is said to be a form of cannabalism, by drinking a human's blood
There are only three main ways of becoming a vampire. By birth, bite and death. It is said that if someone survive's a vampire attack, that they would become one of the undead because of veno that are in the being's fangs. In some cultures, if a child is born on certian holy days, new moons, or seasonal aquinox the result could also be that the child will become a vampire if born with red caul on their heads, an extra nipple or with two hearts. If the mother stared at a vampire or did not eat enough salt whist pregant the baby would also be born as a vampire.
The Vampire myth is almost always thought of as Count Dracula, usually Male with Fangs, ready to kill you. But you know, in the different cultures and countries around the world, the Vampire legends can differ like Day and Night. The vampire itself isn't always in the form of a bat, It was as different as different ethnic groups and countries have representations of them in myths in their culture. In Ancient Greek myths the vampire is often a beautiful woman who has died and has not yet completed her life's purpose.
These vampiric woman are half woman half serpent. These woman are said to live in caves where she gets sustenance from drinking the blood of children who live in the town nearby the cave the vampire woman lives in. However, she also isn't picky, sometimes she also transforms into a very beautiful maiden and seduces young men, for their blood, which she drinks.
There were a few cases where reports were filed in history which believed to be vapires.
Likes the case of Arnold Paole. "It was reported that Arnold was bitten by a vampire while he was serving as a soldier in his country's army. When he returned home from service he became a farmer. One day while cutting hay Paole had an accident which killed him. A few days later, people started dying from loss of blood. The people started saying there was a vampire in their midst. There were several eye-witness reports that said they had seen Arnold walking around after his death. His eye were glassy and his teeth had grown long and sharp. The locals went to dig up Paole's body, and when the had unearthed the corpse, there was no decay and there was fresh blood on the lips and a bloom of color in the cheeks. Arnold looked as fresh as the day he had died. The locals pounded a stake through the vampire's heart and heard the vampire screech in agony. Then they cut off the head and burned the body. The deaths stopped. "
Is this a houx or not? Nobody will ever be sure. Are Vampires real or not? Most people say that they don't exhist. But there are those who believe that they did exhist a long time ago.
Since the first recorded instances of vampires; coming from the Sumerians who five thousand years ago wrote of the "ekimmu" the "evil gust of wind" that drains the life force, people have tried to determine what comprises vampirism.
Vampires seems to defy the terms of being dead while seeming to be alive. A vampire's biography begins with death. Furthermore, much of the vampire's time is spent as a corpse or appearing as a human. But at night, when the normal people will go to sleep it is said that the corpse will rise with dangerous cravings. In the twenty-first century new definitional issues related to brain death, life support systems, persistent vegetative states, and the freezing of both embryos and cadavers (cryonic suspension) have blurred the boundaries between life and death. It is also recognized that some structures, such as the mosaic tobacco virus, can exhibit the properties of either a living or nonliving structure depending upon their situation. For much of history, though, it was the vampire who most daringly crossed and recrossed the borders between the living and the dead.
It is clear that vampirism had a secure place in Slavic superstitions for many years before it became a household word with the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). The author transformed these folk stories into a dark gothic romance. His leading character was inspired by a character he did not have to invent: Vlad Tepes, a fifteenth-century tyrant who slaughtered and sometimes tortured thousands of people. "Vlad the Impaler" was no vampire, though; he did his terrible deeds while alive and had a hearty appetite that did not include sucking blood. Stoker, using literary license, combined the historical Vlad with vampire legends and added a veneer of Victorian culture. Separating fact from fantasy became increasingly difficult as popular literary and theatrical vampires distanced themselves from their roots in anxiety-ridden folklore. Inquiring minds have therefore been following the trail of the vampire, classifying and explaining as best they can.
Vampirism is a very interesting subject to do research on.
