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Topic: Vampire myths Posted: 02-Jun-2011 at 20:32 |
Long before Bram Stoker's Dracula Germans and Eastern Europeans believed vampires really existed. They were the posessed corpses of witches, criminals and suicides who fed on the blood of the living. Vampires were bald-headed, had sharp fangs and long fingernails, smelled bad, spread disease, and were accompanied by vermin like rats.
Corpses that were suspiciously well-preserved or bloated were thought to have drained the life essence of the living. If pursued by a vampire there were ways of outwitting it: throwing a handful of sand or salt was very effective as vampires loved counting the grains.
To kill a vampire you had to either prevent it from returning to its grave at sunrise or dig up and destroy the corpse. There were several ways of doing this: decapitation, burning, or casting it into a river. Alternatively you could rebury the corpse at a crossroads to stop it from finding its way back. The vampire had to be buried face-down and pinned to the ground with a stake to stop it from clawing its way out and haunting the gravesite.
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Posted: 03-Jun-2011 at 00:40 |
Today, if there were vampires they would be a voting block for the democrats and therefore would never be mentioned in the establishment press. Until they were given a celebratory month.
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Posted: 03-Jun-2011 at 07:42 |
Are you kidding? They would have their own PAC and be pushing for more research on Blood diseases.
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Posted: 03-Jun-2011 at 11:34 |
What did exist behind this story very popular now days!?!Werewolves were included inside this story near middle age.Immortality?Fear not to become vampire?Modern concept have provoked different myths about vampires.Let us talk about it!
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Posted: 03-Jun-2011 at 12:33 |
Perhaps it grew out of the Succubus myth.
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Posted: 03-Jun-2011 at 15:21 |
This is second more ferocious and maybe basic:ability for reproduction,similar as cuckoo bird,nesting his eggs in other birds nest.Myth have been shared among us cause,always someone needed people,that have feared from those that have been ruled them.
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Posted: 03-Jun-2011 at 20:44 |
But i don't behead and or burn the corpse of the little pretty birdy's Mede .....vampires? automatically.
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Posted: 04-Jun-2011 at 02:52 |
But you could have taken care about alien blood!In most cases with suspicious behavior!This myth was also connected with psychological behavior as schizophrenia.Where had originated "bed" spirit inside their children?Demons were blamed for it.In most cases were marriages of first or second degree:they were close relatives.In most cases they even had not knowledge about it.
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Posted: 04-Jun-2011 at 04:52 |
Originally posted by medenaywe
But you could have taken care about alien blood!In most cases with suspicious behavior!This myth was also connected with psychological behavior as schizophrenia.Where had originated "bed" spirit inside their children?Demons were blamed for it.In most cases were marriages of first or second degree:they were close relatives.In most cases they even had not knowledge about it. |
Aliens remain to be proven to main stream science lest you use the example of 'earth men' on the moon...in which case they were aliens. And Vampy's dont give a damn about freudian machinations or the ill effects of genetic mutations viz dna distortions between close relatives.....
Their dead.
No Mede... they only care about the sunlight and beheadings and burning.
And maybe garlic.
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Posted: 04-Jun-2011 at 20:20 |
Interestingly, the belief garlic was an effective protection from vampires originates in an old Islamic myth (possibly spread to Eastern Europe by the Turks). When Satan was cast out of heaven the garlic plant supposedly sprouted in his footprint. A plant created by the father of evil could be effective protection from his minions (demons, monsters and the undead)
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Posted: 11-Jun-2011 at 19:36 |
Originally posted by unclefred
Perhaps it grew out of the Succubus myth. |
Interesting theory. Both imps and vampires were creatures of the night who needed human blood to survive.
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Posted: 11-Jun-2011 at 22:23 |
I believe their were several vampire type legends across Mesopotamia.
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Posted: 12-Jun-2011 at 11:58 |
Originally posted by unclefred
Perhaps it grew out of the Succubus myth. |
Or, perhaps was created by the doctors and cemetary operators to both explain and cover the fact that there were many buried alive due to the lack of modern medical tech.
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Posted: 12-Jun-2011 at 12:06 |
Here we have more about your statement Red,but those were buried alive as Zombies: http://lucidconsciousness.com/psychotropia/?p=2256
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Posted: 18-Jun-2011 at 09:22 |
I thought zombies were of African origin. In Europe reanimated corpses were known as ghouls
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Posted: 18-Jun-2011 at 09:28 |
I don't know if I'm allowed to post links, but if you go to Google and type in "Venice vampire brick" you'll find information about a fascinating archaeological find from 2009, where excavators found a corpse which had clearly come to be regarded as a vampire, and had been treated accordingly. Powerful evidence for the prevalence of the vampire myth.
Vampire myths used to be so cool. The fact that we've gone from all this to "Twilight" is an eloquent statement about the lameness of modern culture!
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Posted: 18-Jun-2011 at 09:30 |
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No trouble, I just wasn't sure it was allowed.
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Posted: 18-Jun-2011 at 09:51 |
Originally posted by HerodAntipas
I don't know if I'm allowed to post links, but if you go to Google and type in "Venice vampire brick" you'll find information about a fascinating archaeological find from 2009, where excavators found a corpse which had clearly come to be regarded as a vampire, and had been treated accordingly. Powerful evidence for the prevalence of the vampire myth.
Vampire myths used to be so cool. The fact that we've gone from all this to "Twilight" is an eloquent statement about the lameness of modern culture! |
Within the context of your response to a post...in regards it's context.... if it is a reference or resource to the same.... you certainly may post links and we encourage you to do so.
The only proscription is, as has been addressed elsewhere, are links that are obvious spam.
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Posted: 15-Aug-2011 at 19:50 |
The wooden stake wasn't restricted to vampires. Near where i live a famous highwayman recieved the same treatment after he was shot. When the original stake rotted away a replacement was made in the 1920s
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