When you think of vampires people think of the movies like john carpenters vampires or twigh light an of course Dracula.For century's people have believed in vampires.But people know vampires from what they are today but they dont know the legend of this creature an how different people from all over the world think vampires are an how they came to this world.well im gonna go over this old an forgotten legend an then we are gonna go over the vampires we think of today.
The word vampire.
Vampire is an old Slavonic term vampire was not in the English language till around the 1730s.
The legend
Vampires date back before the beginning of christ they date back to the ancient Assyria an the Babylonia.The ancient Aztecs drank blood from there idols.I India they drank blood from people heads that were cut off.The Chinese guarded the body's of the deceased from cats an dogs they believed if a cat or dog jumped over the dead they would turn in to a vampire.
Lamia
You are probably. Thinking what is a Lamia the Greeks an romans believed a Lamia is a female vampire who only went after males they say she suduced the male then drank his blood.
Vrukalakos
Same for this vampire the people from Greece believed in this.they say the vampire revived the dead an they lived of the living by feeding on them.
Why people dont think vampires are just a myth.
There is a rare genetic diease its call
PORPHYRIA
People with this have to always have blood transfusions they have a strong negative reactions to garlic an they have avoid sun light an there are other reasons why people think there a myth or made up. If you want to know just leave a comment an ill tell you some other reasons.
The first sightings of vampires.
It was in the 1730s they say to be sighted in Europe.
The first cases of vampires
The story gos that one night a solider. Is having dinner with a farmer an his family a old man. Comes an joins them at dinner the whole family looks scared because of the old man the solider saw that the old man ran his hand across the farmers shoulder. The next morning the solider found the farmer dead.he called in the death to his commanding officer they started talking to the family because the old man left after he touched him.The family members told the soliders that the old man was the farmers dad who died over 10 years ago.the resumed the body of the old man they say he looked like he just died.the soliders cut the head off the old man an layed him back to rest. They went into town an talked to the town people told them there was a vampire attacking it killed 3. Nieces an a brother an is attacking the fourth niece when they saw it they dug up the vampire the nails an hair an eyes were not rotted an the heart was still beating a solider put a iron stake though its chest in too its heart an cut its head off they say the fourth niece recovers.
Now after reading this you know a little about the legend of vampires how they are completely. Different from todays fanged monsters ill tell you about the modern day human hunting machines. In the next post hope you found this a cool an interesting as i did.