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What little I know about vampires; for you reading pleasure.
The idea of vampires has been around for hundreds of years in Britain, they were blamed in many places for spreading plague, killing people, and even milking cows at night so they couldn't produce when milking time came.
Abroad, the idea of vampires has been going for an equally large amount of time. You'll find most cultures have myths about creatures that fit the vampire bill. Some are a bit weird, like one that can turn into a lizard, and another than dosen't drink blood, but enjoys joy riding people's cattle.
During the middle ages in Britain there was some kind of sleeping sickness that killed a lot of people; however, the thing was that some people didn't actually die from it, yet due to the poor standard of medical science they were diagnosed as being dead, buried, and then they woke up again. Groans were heard in the churchyard, and when graves were dug up they'd find that the bodies had been clawing at the coffin, and even eating their own flesh out of dire hunger. Of course they didn't think "buried alive" they thought "vampire".
While Vlad the Impaler was by no means the 'first' vampire, he was the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. For those of you who don't know, Vlad was a vicious little sh*t who used to do various nasty things to his enemies - these included getting a large wooden stake, several feet long, and using some nice strong horses tied to it, would insert it up your bottom, through your internal organs and out the top of yoru back - he had this down to a fine art, being able to keep people alive on it for several days as they slid down it. Other lovely methods he employed was boiling people alive, roastig people alive, hacking out female sexual organs, hacking off noses and ears... he was a bit of a nasty man. Despite this, he did very little in the way of turning into a bat, or drinking blood.
The idea of vampires has been around for hundreds of years in Britain, they were blamed in many places for spreading plague, killing people, and even milking cows at night so they couldn't produce when milking time came.
Abroad, the idea of vampires has been going for an equally large amount of time. You'll find most cultures have myths about creatures that fit the vampire bill. Some are a bit weird, like one that can turn into a lizard, and another than dosen't drink blood, but enjoys joy riding people's cattle.
During the middle ages in Britain there was some kind of sleeping sickness that killed a lot of people; however, the thing was that some people didn't actually die from it, yet due to the poor standard of medical science they were diagnosed as being dead, buried, and then they woke up again. Groans were heard in the churchyard, and when graves were dug up they'd find that the bodies had been clawing at the coffin, and even eating their own flesh out of dire hunger. Of course they didn't think "buried alive" they thought "vampire".
While Vlad the Impaler was by no means the 'first' vampire, he was the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. For those of you who don't know, Vlad was a vicious little sh*t who used to do various nasty things to his enemies - these included getting a large wooden stake, several feet long, and using some nice strong horses tied to it, would insert it up your bottom, through your internal organs and out the top of yoru back - he had this down to a fine art, being able to keep people alive on it for several days as they slid down it. Other lovely methods he employed was boiling people alive, roastig people alive, hacking out female sexual organs, hacking off noses and ears... he was a bit of a nasty man. Despite this, he did very little in the way of turning into a bat, or drinking blood.
