With all these movies, books and television shows about vampires do you sometimes think they are real?
3 September 2010
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I know that sounds silly but isn’t there some truth to every folktale? I mean I know all about Vlad the Impaler but there were stories before him. I also know that psychic vampires are real, but I’m talking about those blood and gore ones. So what do you think?
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I think I want to suck your blood (kidding)
Vlad the Impaler was a mentally deranged ruler who had an impaling fetish. He wasn’t a vampire. Fiction is just that, make believe. There are certain disorders that can cause someone to behave and look in a vampiric or werewolfish way which people several generations before could mistake for someone actually being “undead.”
The vampire myth was based on the disease porphyria and, yes, it was around long before Vlad the Impaler. No I don’t think they’re real.
I just don’t think that vampires are real, I know that they are real… Beyond all shadows of a doubt…. Now as for those vampires wanna-bee’s and all of those non-believers….. You have every right not to believe… But you have no rights to insult someone that does….. And the nurse that saying what she is saying is correct except that we are not talking about humans we are talking about vampires… And make her thoughts invalid………
to answer your question no i don’t think vampires are real there is no proof to support it and there “origins” are just a group of stories and thanks to people like bram stoker there stories is more of a mish mash then a history
but as a side note i read the answer that mentioned vlad true he might of been off his rocker but he wasn’t a impaler fetish as some might think i agree he was brutally in some of his methods but he was also facing the Turkish empire and he had to do some pretty gruesome things to keep his country safe
we in the west look at him as a monster but the people of romania look at him as a notional hero much like we look at George Washington
yes i believe vampires are real. i totally agree that you have the right to not believe in them but you have no right to say people who believe belong in padded rooms. i believe since there is a way into Hell there is a way out and that since Hell is so crowded that demons break free. i know the human race refuse to believe things that they can’t explain and most could see a vampire and pretend it was something else. most vampire stories such as them waking up in a coffin right before they were buried was actually people who had rabies they had a really slow pulse and sun light hurt their eyes. i think there out their and we need to know how to defend ourselves.
Quite the opposite. All these lying books, movies and TV shows force me to remember that Vlad Tsepes and Elisabeth Bathory were real people (and even aristocrats) and that belief in vampires and our understanding of them comes from Indo-European attitudes towards death. I have to make a conscious effort to remember this. The books, movies and TV shows which I keep coming across are garbage, period.
Folktales are based on whatever knowledge was available at the time they were invented. A victim of tuberculosis died and their family started to get sick and die as well. The only thing people could think of was that she was a vampire.
Porphyria has been suggested as an explanation for the origin of vampire and werewolf legends, based upon certain similarities between the condition and the folklore.
In January 1964, L. Illis’ 1963 paper, “On Porphyria and the Ætiology of Werwolves”, was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. Later, Nancy Garden made a connection between porphyria and the vampire belief in her 1973 book, Vampires. However, in 1985, biochemist David Dolphin’s paper for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, “Porphyria, Vampires, and Werewolves: The Aetiology of European Metamorphosis Legends”, gained widespread media coverage, thus popularizing the connection.
The theory has since faced heavy criticism, especially for the stigma it has placed on its sufferers. Norine Dresser’s American Vampires: Fans, Victims, Practitioners (1989) treats the matter with more depth. The theory also operates on a highly-flawed premise: mainly in regards to a perceived harmful effect sunlight had on vampires. But this is a much more recent innovation in vampire “lore”: its origin is from 1922, with the release of vampire movie, Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens.
Porphyria cutanea tarda presents clinically as a pathological sensitivity of skin exposed to light causing scarring, hair growth and disfiguration. Additionally, it was believed that the patients’ missing heme could be absorbed through the stomach, correlating with the legends’ hematophagy.[13]
read twilight the vampires in there arent gorey really but they seem so real.!
yes read this:
Don’t read if you are not open minded and interested in vampires.
This is a very basic guide, that is helpful. But to find out more(if your interested) read and search and discover on your own. Remember what is true and what is made up should be clearer after you read the following vampire guide of terms and slang used on the vampire community.
Awakening: Term used to describe an already born vampires self discovery and physical awareness and growth. Awakening in vampires usually happens during puberty but can happen later in life- and that is sometimes referred to as ‘turning”.
Basic symptoms of awakening include- sensitivity to sun, Hunger(see letter H) for blood(in younger vampires this need is less strong) as well as other changes, but this is the basic of what awakening refers to in symptoms.
Blood; Not all vampires consume ore need blood , but this guide refers not to energy vampires but blood vampires. The need for blood is great in vampires and is believed to be needed for good health in vampires. Blood is the force of life- it’s the type of energy that vampires consume. Not more then a full spoon once in a few weeks sometimes less. That great need for blood is what makes a vampire a vampire. And as stated before appears during the awakening and can feel different from person to person. Theirs really no other way to describe it rather then hunger ore need.(see N)
Coffin: No! vampires(real vampires not Ann Rice vampires) do not sleep in coffins. But some choose to do so as a choice of style.(its dark and dry after all..)
Donor; A donor is a person that donates blood to a specific vampire. The donor is trusted by the vampire to be safe and test for HIV(aides) ect.. Usually the vampire and donor(man ore a women) develop a close relationship sometimes a loving one. The donor doesn’t get hurt during the process and remember were talking about a really small amount of blood
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