Vampyres throughout history

Vampyres

Introduction to Vampyres

Do Vampyres really exist? Bram Stokers created his Vampyre vilan from the history of Vlad Dracul (Dracula meaning, The son of the Dragon), and over the years the character evolved into what is known today as the “Hollywood Vampyre”. This monster is eternally beautiful, charming, rich and flies in the night as a bat. It also drinks the blood of the living and is repelled by garlic and holy symbols.
The legend of the Vampyre originated in Transylvania which is now a province in Romania. These Vampyres, which were acatually bloated corpses of the dead, were thought to roam around villages to drink the blood of men. Why blood? When the town people would dig up the suspected Vampyres they’d find large amonts of blood in the mouth, eyes and nose. The corpse would moan and the gases pushed their way out from every hole of the corpse, thus the culprit was found and killed again. It was most likely beheaded, staked and burned.










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