Do you think that vampires exist in this world?

Question

Why would so many people in Romania all have similar stories dating back to Vlaad the impaler (Dracula)?? Even today years after the dead are buried they are dug up to make sure that they are still there and dead and havent become "undead". When the dead are taken to the cemetery, the Romanians still make sure the deceased leave feet first from the church, doing this makes it to where the dead are less likely to become "undead".
why would so MANY people throughout history and even in diferent parts of the world have so many similar stories if there wasnt some basis of fact?

Answer 1

First off, people love a good scary story.Simply add history of any kind, Hollywood, shake well. Serve cold.
It draws tourists to a country(Romania) having very little other than an a back round loosely supporting an old myth,( from some convenient history), to offer. Add some ignorance of course, that always helps.
. Than of course a lot depends on who's or what you consider the meaning of "Vampire", to be.

Answer 2

Well, I would say the closest thing to a "real" vampire is a cannibal. I don't believe there are any individuals on earth who are "undead." If they do exist, I wish they would make themselves useful and help us achieve world peace. Yes, there was a Romanian countess who drank the blood of people, but this doesn't make her a vampire. Why? Because she would probably be able to go without blood and still live, and she didn't drink the blood through fangs, but manually. As well, her motive probably wasn't an appetite for it, but sheer insanity. I also don't think the traditions of Romania are significant, for the country itself hardly ever makes the news.

Answer 3

lol i idea this proper when I talked concerning the middle of the night premire of recent Moon!! Lol, the ending replaced into dumb. Marry me Bella. Then it is going to her for 3 seconds. She doesnt say definite or no. THen the exhibit is going black and says directed by ability of Chris Welsh. LOL, now I cant wait til' June 30 (Eclipse). yet, regrettably no, vampires are merely a delusion. It originated in the 1600s with murders and the mysterious lack of blood of the sufferers, and the weapon used appears like tooth marks. also, there replaced into once a gang that "drank blood". So, no.

Answer 4

I doubt that there is much factual basis for believing in vampires as genuine “undead” creatures roaming around in our physical world, but I can suggest some possible basis for the “reality” of vampires from some alternative perspectives. C.G. Jung did a lot of research on archetypes in human cultures. (Jungian archetypes are innate, universal ideas. You can think of them this way: Humans obviously share many biological similarities, for example, the basic shape of the human body is shared by virtually all humans. Jung suggested that the human MIND also contains universal structures, and these psychological structures are what he called archetypes.) Most major archetypes appear in widely different cultures throughout the world. I won’t say much more, but I will share a quote suggesting that vampires may have archetypal origins. It is a sample from “The Prenatal and Natal Foundations of the Vampire Myth”:

“At a professional meeting in 1988, during a lively discussion following the presentation of a panel of papers on the revenant, I observed aloud…that, in one sense, we all had been vampires, since we existed for nine or so months on our mother's blood, deriving our nourishment therefrom. While I believed that this unpleasant observation was obvious, there was a shocked silence in the room…”

Another brief quote from the same source: “The horrible, lousy, rotten, stinking truth about the revenant archetype is that it is bolted to our souls because we all were once revenants, umbilically connected to a monstrous incestuous psychic complex pre-partum, and post-partum by our desire to suck our nourishment.”

The above quotes offer just one example of archetypal approach to understanding vampires.

Another (very different) line of though might tie vampires and other mythological creatures to possible influences from other dimensions. This will seem wildly speculative (because it IS), but alternative dimensions are becoming very seriously discussed in modern physics and cosmology. There is absolutely no good scientific evidence to suggest that these other dimensions could contain beings or psychological structures that could influence our lives here in the subset of dimensions we call our own physical world, but since we have no good working theories on the nature and origins of consciousness, it is difficult to rule our the possibility that our minds/imaginations might be able to connect to other dimensions. If so, then for all we know, the widespread nature of vampire mythology could have originated in the existence of vampire-like creatures in other dimensions. Just a little something to think about some dark and stormy night while you are lying alone in bed, teetering on the verge of dreamland ;-)

Answer 5

Hi Snowprincess!

Let me answer your questions in the order your asked them:

1. Vampire, is it true? What is a vampire?

Vampires are mythical or folkloric creatures, typically held to be the re-animated corpses of human beings and said to subsist on human and/or animal blood (hematophagy), often having supernatural powers, heightened bodily functions, and/or the ability to physically transform. Some cultures have myths of non-human vampires, such as demons or animals like bats, dogs, and spiders. Vampires are often described as having a variety of additional powers and character traits, extremely variable in different traditions, and are a frequent subject of folklore, cinema, and contemporary fiction.

Vampirism is the practice of drinking blood from a person/animal. Vampires are said to mainly bite the victim's neck, extracting the blood from the carotid artery. In folklore and popular culture, the term generally refers to a belief that one can gain supernatural powers by drinking human blood. The historical practice of vampirism can generally be considered a more specific and less commonly occurring form of cannibalism. The consumption of another's blood (and/or flesh) has been used as a tactic of psychological warfare intended to terrorize the enemy, and it can be used to reflect various spiritual beliefs.

In zoology and botany, the term vampirism is used to refer to leeches, mosquitos, mistletoe, vampire bats, and other organisms that prey upon the bodily fluids of other creatures. This term also applies to mythic animals of the same nature, including the chupacabra.

2. If not, why are so many stories about it still surface? Or why do people believe them?

In his book, De masticatione mortuorum in tumulis, Michaël Ranft makes a first attempt to explain folk's belief in vampires. He says that, in the event of the death of every villager, some other person or people - much probably a person related to the first dead - who saw or touched the corpse, would eventually die either or some disease related to exposition to the corpse or of a fenetic delirium caused by the panic of only seeing the corpse. These dying people would say that the dead man had appeared to them and tortured them in many ways. The other people in the village would exhume the corpse to see what it had been doing. He gives the following explanation when talking about the case of Peter Plogojowitz: "This brave man perished by a sudden or violent death. This death, whatever it is, can provoke in the survivors the visions they had after his death. Sudden death gives rise to inquietude in the familiar circle. Inquietude has sorrow as a companion. Sorrow brings melancholy. Melancholy engenders restless nights and tormenting dreams. These dreams enfeeble body and spirit until illness overcomes and, eventually, death."

Nowadays, some people argue that vampire stories might have been influenced by a rare illness called porphyria. The disease disrupts the production of heme. People with extreme but rare cases of this hereditary disease can be so sensitive to sunlight that they can get a sunburn through heavy cloud cover, causing them to avoid sunlight — although it should be noted that the idea that vampires are harmed by sunlight is largely from modern fiction and not the original beliefs. Certain forms of porphyria are also associated with neurological symptoms, which can create psychiatric disorders. However, the hypotheses that porphyria sufferers crave the heme in human blood, or that the consumption of blood might ease the symptoms of porphyria, are based on a severe misunderstanding of the disease. There is no real evidence to suggest that porphyria had anything to do with the development of the original folklore, as the hypothesis is mainly based off the characteristics of the modern vampire in any case. Others argue that there is a relationship between vampirism and rabies, since people suffering from this disease would avoid sunlight and looking into mirrors and would froth at the mouth. This froth could sometimes look like blood, being red in colour. However, like porphyria, there is little evidence to prove any links between vampires and rabies.

I hope this answers your question.

Answer 6

Listen vampire bats exist but not vampire humans!

ampires are mythical or folkloric creatures, typically held to be the re-animated corpses of human beings and said to subsist on human and/or animal blood (hematophagy), often having supernatural powers, heightened bodily functions, and/or the ability to physically transform. Some cultures have myths of non-human vampires, such as demons or animals like bats, dogs, and spiders. Vampires are often described as having a variety of additional powers and character traits, extremely variable in different traditions, and are a frequent subject of folklore, cinema, and contemporary fiction.

Answer 7

You have to consider the intelligence of folks back then. They also did not believe in taking baths or eating tomatoes !? People do thungs for all sorts of reasons. I believe some time in history there was someone or some people who were creepy enough to scare people to the point that traditions like that got started. Traditions moved with the people when they emigrated out of their homeland to other countries. I think there are people today who believe they are vampires just as there are people who believe they are God or Superman . Takes all kinds & we seem to see more looneytunes out there every day.

Answer 8

Vampires are mythical or folkloric creatures, typically held to be the re-animated corpses of human beings and said to subsist on human and/or animal blood (hematophagy), often having supernatural powers, heightened bodily functions, and/or the ability to physically transform. Some cultures have myths of non-human vampires, such as demons or animals like bats, dogs, and spiders. Vampires are often described as having a variety of additional powers and character traits, extremely variable in different traditions, and are a frequent subject of folklore, cinema, and contemporary fiction.

Answer 9

Vlaad the Impaler is not a vampire. He is just a merciless count that have killed hundreds of his enemy on the war. In addition, vampires are just folklore. Their existence where only driven by modern horror films and novels. If there is any, we can classified them as: normal cannibalistic individual in certain cultures.

Answer 10

There are many kinds of vampires

Sanguine: blood vampires
Psychic: Energy Vamps

are the 2 most common varieties
you will find that real vampires are very rare but there are thosuand of people who claim to be them