Vampire myths

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.

Are you kidding?  They would have their own PAC and be pushing for more research on Blood diseases. 

Perhaps it grew out of the Succubus myth.

But i don't behead and or burn the corpse of the little pretty birdy's Mede.....vampires? automatically.

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.....

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.

Originally posted by unclefred Perhaps it grew out of the Succubus myth.

 

I thought zombies were of African origin. In Europe reanimated corpses were known as ghouls

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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!