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2006-08-05 10:54:01 · 19 answers · asked by juju 1 in Arts & Humanities History

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Not to the best knowledge of scientists and government officials.

2006-08-05 10:57:24 · answer #1 · answered by Black Sabbath 6 · 0 0

My science teacher in grade ten told us a bit about this as a Halloween 'treat'. Apparently, there's this disease - I forget what it's called - that makes some people sensitive to sunlight. Before there was a cure for this, wealthier people would stay indoors all the time and thus were very, very pale. It was also widely believed that blood was good for people with this disease, so they would take this on a regular basis - though only the blood of cattle, mind you.

Poorer peopl couldn't afford to kill an animal so frequently and had to go out to work for a living. In reaction to the exposure to sunlight, their bodies would grow hair to protect their skin, thus creating 'werewolves'.

This being a time previous to deep scientific and full of superstition, 'normal' people obviously grew frightened of something different, and reacted with fear, creating the tales that the thrill-junkies of today thrive on.

2006-08-06 00:45:00 · answer #2 · answered by Danielle N 1 · 0 0

Only in books, movies and plays. However there are such things as vampire bats which lives on the blood of other animals. There was also a real person called Dracula (also known by the name Vlad the Impaler) who lived in Transylvania. There are also true stories of children (at least I think they're true) who were raised by wolves. But no werewolf per se.

2006-08-05 19:20:30 · answer #3 · answered by Brush Hog 3 · 0 0

In a way both yes and no

There are people who take part in vampirism in that they drink human blood, however there are no Hollywood vampires ie stakes, garlic, silver, Buffy and bats etc

As far as werewolves are concerned they are people who suffer from the mental illness lycanthropy, were they think they turn into wolves etc. Again there are no real werewolves.

As far as we know

2006-08-05 19:06:44 · answer #4 · answered by zigzag 2 · 0 0

Vampires are people who appear great and beautiful of character but when you get to know them they suck you dry out of attention and filling the gaping emptiness and lack of love inside themselves.
Werewolves are people who you think are good and honest, kind and loving but then they change into a terrible monstrosity and try to kill you.
I've met quite a few on my travels. Lol

2006-08-05 18:00:44 · answer #5 · answered by zephyrescent 4 · 0 0

Yes there are!
The vampire is in your closet!
And the werewolf is under your bed!
AND...there is a swamp monster that lives in your toliet and it's gonna stick it's hand up and grab you next time you sit on it in the dark!

2006-08-06 00:59:08 · answer #6 · answered by Muinghan Life During Wartime 7 · 0 0

Not in the sense you are asking the question, but the term has been part of folklore deep into the history of humans.

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). They are also the frequent subject of cinema and fiction, albeit fictional vampires have acquired a set of traits distinct from those of folkloric vampires (see Traits of vampires in fiction). In folklore, the term usually refers to the blood-sucking undead of Eastern European legends, but it is often extended to cover similar legendary creatures in other regions and cultures. Vampire characteristics vary widely between different traditions. Some cultures have stories of non-human vampires, such as animals like bats, dogs, and spiders.
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 legendary animals of the same nature, including the chupacabra.


Human hematophagy
Drinking blood and manufacturing foodstuffs and delicacies with animal blood is also a feeding behavior in many societies. African Masai mainstay food, for instance is cow blood mixed with milk.Some sources say that Mongols would drink blood from one of their horses if it became a necessity. Blood sausage is eaten in many places around the world. Some societies, such as the Moche, had ritual hematophagy, as well as the Scythians, a nomadic people of Russia, who had the habit of drinking the blood of the first enemy they would kill in battle. Some religious rituals underline the importance of metaphorical hematophagy, such as in the representation of blood of Jesus Christ by wine during Catholic mass. Satanic sects in the West have been reported to drink human blood from willing donors and psychiatric cases of hematophagy as a symptom also exist. Sucking one's own blood from a wound is also a behaviour commonly seen in humans, and in small enough quantities is not considered taboo. Finally, real or imagined, human vampirism has been a persistent object of literary and media attention, and tales of blood-thirsty Count Vlad, the supposed inspiration of the Dracula character, continue to be told.

2006-08-05 20:32:32 · answer #7 · answered by Randy 7 · 0 0

no but there were a few sotries in the news about some freak girl that went nuts and drank the blood of her friend

2006-08-05 18:08:14 · answer #8 · answered by Red Army Marshal 2 · 0 0

no,they dun.it's a figment of someone's imagination.also,it's very entertaining so it really spreads on. this thing abt tabot family is actually tht they seem to have more body hair than usual-it's male members..tht's all.

2006-08-06 04:43:03 · answer #9 · answered by Mrs Hermione Potter 4 · 0 0

Yes! But only in your imagination.

2006-08-05 20:39:26 · answer #10 · answered by child_of_the_lion 3 · 0 0

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