QuoteReplyTopic: Vampyr Posted: 07-Jul-2005 at 15:55
So i was wondering if anyone has any credable information on the first
known record of a "Vampire" or some creature of the sort. not taking
about were-animals, but the actual blood or life sucking creature. In
Slavic mythology there are afew examples of such a creature. Ex- the
Mara, Vmpyr, etc.... in Greece i know there are a few legends also. SO
which culture do you think came up with the idea first. doesnt have to
be specificly Slavic or Greece.
Der Erste hat den Tod,
Der Zweite hat die Not,
Der Dritte erst hat Brot.
Fur immer frei und ungeteilt
-always free and undivided-
Slavic and Hellenic folkore history are one of the greatest concerning vampires.The word vampyr is of slavic origin.I can found some information,but you have to wait.Oh,i forgot.In Greek Rome and Meditaranean civilizations forum,i have opened a topic about the Hellenic folkore history.There i posted some of the Hellenic words for vampire.
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. "
--- Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky, 1991, Russian-American poet, b. St. Petersburg and exiled 1972 (1940-1996)
Slavs before adopting christianity were burning their dead. Vampires were a creatures of slavic mythology, one type of many strange subhuman monstrums in which slavs belived a man can change after death. After adopting christianity Slavs were no longer burning their dead but burrying them in christian style. So anyone who was somehow strange could have become a vampire. On many medieval slavic cementaries were found corpses with pierced hearts.
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