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Friday, December 2, 2005

Here are some interesting facts about Vampires:
I found most of these at the "Vampyr" fanlisting site.

~Vampires are mythological beings that have returned from death and must drink the blood of living creatures in order to survive.

~Usually, a vctim of a vampire becomes a vampire themselves.

~The word "vampire" is generally believed to have Slavic origins, but there have been many variations over the centuries.

~The word "vampire" first came into the english language during 1732, and was taken from the Romanian "vampyr".

~Media and folk-lore have shaped our understanding of the vampire over time, and while the vampire can differ greatly two aspects remain strong: vampires are immortal and they must drink the blood of the living to survive.

~Blood has become the universal food source for vampires, and this is probably because blood was believed to hold supernatural quilities as the giver and keeper of life.

~In Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula appeared old until he drank blood, and afterward he appeared younger.

~Forms of the vampire have been around since the 1500s, but over the last century, the media has relished the vampire, and new "takes" on the creature have arisen, including the change from the vampire being a hideous monster to a more charming being.

~The most famous story of the vampire has been Irish author Bram Stoker's classic, "Dracula".

~Dracula was based on two real-life characters, Vlad V of Wallachia (1456-1476, otherwise known as Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler), and Countess Elizabeth Bathory (The Blood Countess).

~Vampire myths go back thousands of years, and occur in almost every culture around the world (leading many to belive vampires were, and still are, real).

~The vampire myths of Europe originated in the far east, and were transported from places like China, Tibet, and India with the trade caravans along the silk route to the Mediterranean. Here, they spread out along the Black Sea coast to Greece, the Balkans, and of course the Carpathian Mountains, including Hungury and Transylvania.

~"If ever there was in the world a warrented and proven history it is that of vampires." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

~In most cultures, the oldest vampire figures were females.

~"Hungury, it may not untruely be said, shares with Greece and Slovakia the reputation of being that particular region of the world which is most terribly infested by the Vampire and where he is seen at his ugliest and worst." - Montague Summers

Neat stuff, huh?
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